Format:
Book
Title:
Hope and history : why we must share the story of the movement / Vincent Harding.
Author:
Harding, Vincent.
Call Number:
323.0973 HARDING
Edition:
[Rev. 2nd ed.].
Publisher, Date:
Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 2009.
Description:
p. cm.
Subjects:
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Study and teaching.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Study and teaching.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Race relations -- Study and teaching.
Contents:
Foreword / by Lerone Bennett, Jr. -- Preface to revised edition -- Making democracy a reality -- Introduction -- Moving beyond the boundaries -- Signs ... signs ... turn visible again -- The transformative uses of biography -- Advanced ideas about democracy -- Rediscovering humanity's great lessons at home -- More power than we know -- Recollecting the young warriors -- Fighting for freedom with church fans -- To know what religion means -- God's appeal to this age -- The search for alternatives to violence -- Gifts of the Black movement -- Toward a new birth of freedom -- Poets, musicians, and magicians -- Prophetic Black artists of the new creation -- Doing the right thing in Mississippi and Brooklyn -- How shall we connect? -- In search of the world -- A geography of freedom -- Is America possible? -- The land that never has been yet -- One final, soaring hope -- Building the campgrounds of renewal -- Letters to teachers in religious communities and institutions -- Our children are waiting for the music -- A letter to my brother and son, the president.
ISBN:
1570758573
9781570758577 (pbk.)