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Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero Paperback - 2008
by Vincent Harding
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In these eloquent essays that reflect upon King's legacy over the past two decades and the meaning of his life today, a portrait emerges of a man constantly evolving and going deeper into the roots of violence and injustice--a man whose challenge remains as timely and necessary as ever.
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It was in January 1979 that the first formal call was made for the nation to claim Martin Luther King, Jr., as its official hero.
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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.
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- Title Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero
- Author Vincent Harding
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised edition
- Pages 164
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Orbis Books
- Publication date 2008-01-01
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781570757365 / 1570757364
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.24 x 5.48 x 0.43 in (20.93 x 13.92 x 1.09 cm)
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- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Mainline
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Moral conditions, King, Martin Luther - Religion
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007037260
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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