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- catalog abstract "In these eloquent essays, the noted scholar and activist Vincent Harding reflects on the forgotten legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the meaning of his life today. Many of these reflections are inspired by the ambiguous message surrounding the official celebration of King's birthday. Harding sees a tendency to freeze an image of King from the period of his early leadership of the Civil Rights movement, the period culminating with his famous "I Have a Dream Speech." Harding writes passionately of King's later years, when his message and witness became more radical and challenging to the status quo at every level. In those final years before his assassination King took up the struggle against racism in the urban ghettos of the North; he became an eloquent critic of the Vietnam war; he laid the foundations for the Poor People's Campaign. This widening of his message and his tactics entailed controversy even within his own movement. But they point to a consistent expansion of his critique of American injustice and his solidarity with the oppressed. It was this spirit that brought him to Memphis in 1968 to lend his support to striking sanitation workers. It was there that he paid the final price for his prophetic witness.".
- catalog contributor b8866259.
- catalog coverage "United States Moral conditions.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "1. The Inconvenient Hero: The Last Years of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 2. Getting Ready for the Hero -- 3. Martin King, Burning Bushes, and Us: Revisiting the March on Washington -- 4. Beyond Amnesia: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Future of America -- 5. The Land Beyond: Reflections on King's "Beyond Vietnam" Speech -- 6. We Must Keep Going -- 7. Blessed Astronaut of the Human Race -- 8. Tell the Children.".
- catalog description "In these eloquent essays, the noted scholar and activist Vincent Harding reflects on the forgotten legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the meaning of his life today. Many of these reflections are inspired by the ambiguous message surrounding the official celebration of King's birthday. Harding sees a tendency to freeze an image of King from the period of his early leadership of the Civil Rights movement, the period culminating with his famous "I Have a Dream Speech." Harding writes passionately of King's later years, when his message and witness became more radical and challenging to the status quo at every level. In those final years before his assassination King took up the struggle against racism in the urban ghettos of the North; he became an eloquent critic of the Vietnam war; he laid the foundations for the Poor People's Campaign. This widening of his message and his tactics entailed controversy even within his own movement. But they point to a consistent expansion of his critique of American injustice and his solidarity with the oppressed. It was this spirit that brought him to Memphis in 1968 to lend his support to striking sanitation workers. It was there that he paid the final price for his prophetic witness.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "x, 146 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Martin Luther King, the inconvenient hero.".
- catalog identifier "1570750645 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Martin Luther King, the inconvenient hero.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books,".
- catalog relation "Martin Luther King, the inconvenient hero.".
- catalog spatial "United States Moral conditions.".
- catalog subject "323/.092 B 20".
- catalog subject "E185.97.K5 H275 1996".
- catalog subject "King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 Influence.".
- catalog subject "King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 Religion.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Inconvenient Hero: The Last Years of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 2. Getting Ready for the Hero -- 3. Martin King, Burning Bushes, and Us: Revisiting the March on Washington -- 4. Beyond Amnesia: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Future of America -- 5. The Land Beyond: Reflections on King's "Beyond Vietnam" Speech -- 6. We Must Keep Going -- 7. Blessed Astronaut of the Human Race -- 8. Tell the Children.".
- catalog title "Martin Luther King : the inconvenient hero / Vincent Harding.".
- catalog type "text".