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• catalog abstract ""Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. Personally addressed to eight white Birmingham clergy who sought to avoid violence by publicly discouraging King's civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, the nationally published "Letter" captured the essence of the struggle for racial equality and provided a blistering critique of the gradualist approach to racial justice. It soon became part of American folklore, and the image of King penning his epistle from a prison cell remains among the most moving of the era. Yet as S. Jonathan Bass explains in the first comprehensive history of King's "Letter," this image and the piece's literary appeal conceal a much more complex tale." "Here is the story of how King and his associates carefully planned, composed, edited, and distributed the "Letter" as a public relations tool; of the media's enthusiastic response to it; and of this single document's immense impact on the civil rights movement, the eight white clergy, and the American public. As Bass goes beyond shallow headlines and popular myths to uncover the true story behind the "Letter," Martin Luther King Jr. emerges as a pragmatist who skillfully used the mass media in his efforts to end racial injustice." "In separate biographies of each of the eight ministers, Bass Investigates the backgrounds, individual reactions to the "Letter," and subsequent careers of the men who were vilified as misguided opponents of King. Understanding their viewpoints and examining their lives reveal much about the role of the church and the synagogue during the civil rights era. Although they agreed on a few moral and ethical principles and signed joint public statements, the eight clergy had conflicting and often evolving ideas about civil rights and race relations, just like other southerners. Though chided in the "Letter," most of the eight ministers, Bass explains, shared King's goals of racial justice but disagreed with him on how best to achieve them - a position in line with mainstream religious and political leaders of the time." "In demonstrating how the racial dilemma trapped self-styled gradualists and moderates between integrationists and segregationists. Blessed Are the Peacemakers forcefully dramatizes the complexity of southern race relations in the turbulent decades of the 1950s and 1960s."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11936590.
• catalog contributor b11936591.
• catalog coverage "Birmingham (Ala.) Race relations.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""Aristocracy of the damn fools" -- In the South by and by -- Turning the corner -- "Grand fraternity of the harassed" -- Eyes on the press: Birmingham and the SCLC -- The prison epistle -- Gospel of publicity -- "Let it alone" -- "This city isn't dead yet" -- The unpardonable sin.".
• catalog description ""In separate biographies of each of the eight ministers, Bass Investigates the backgrounds, individual reactions to the "Letter," and subsequent careers of the men who were vilified as misguided opponents of King. Understanding their viewpoints and examining their lives reveal much about the role of the church and the synagogue during the civil rights era. Although they agreed on a few moral and ethical principles and signed joint public statements, the eight clergy had conflicting and often evolving ideas about civil rights and race relations, just like other southerners. Though chided in the "Letter," most of the eight ministers, Bass explains, shared King's goals of racial justice but disagreed with him on how best to achieve them - a position in line with mainstream religious and political leaders of the time." "In demonstrating how the racial dilemma trapped self-styled gradualists and moderates between integrationists and segregationists. Blessed Are the Peacemakers forcefully dramatizes the complexity of southern race relations in the turbulent decades of the 1950s and 1960s."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. Personally addressed to eight white Birmingham clergy who sought to avoid violence by publicly discouraging King's civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, the nationally published "Letter" captured the essence of the struggle for racial equality and provided a blistering critique of the gradualist approach to racial justice. It soon became part of American folklore, and the image of King penning his epistle from a prison cell remains among the most moving of the era. Yet as S. Jonathan Bass explains in the first comprehensive history of King's "Letter," this image and the piece's literary appeal conceal a much more complex tale." "Here is the story of how King and his associates carefully planned, composed, edited, and distributed the "Letter" as a public relations tool; of the media's enthusiastic response to it; and of this single document's immense impact on the civil rights movement, the eight white clergy, and the American public. As Bass goes beyond shallow headlines and popular myths to uncover the true story behind the "Letter," Martin Luther King Jr. emerges as a pragmatist who skillfully used the mass media in his efforts to end racial injustice."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-312) and index.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 322 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0807126551 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Alabama Birmingham".
• catalog spatial "Birmingham (Ala.) Race relations.".
• catalog subject "323/.092/2761781 21".
• catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights Alabama Birmingham History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Civil disobedience Alabama Birmingham History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Civil rights movements Alabama Birmingham History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Clergy Alabama Birmingham Biography.".
• catalog subject "Clergy Alabama Birmingham Political activity History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Clergy Political activity Alabama Birmingham History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "F334.B69 N415 2001".
• catalog subject "King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. Letter from Birmingham Jail.".
• catalog tableOfContents ""Aristocracy of the damn fools" -- In the South by and by -- Turning the corner -- "Grand fraternity of the harassed" -- Eyes on the press: Birmingham and the SCLC -- The prison epistle -- Gospel of publicity -- "Let it alone" -- "This city isn't dead yet" -- The unpardonable sin.".
• catalog title "Blessed are the peacemakers : Martin Luther King, Jr., eight white religious leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / S. Jonathan Bass.".
• catalog type "text".