Martin & Malcolm & America
Author: James H. Cone
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0883448246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s
Author: James H. Cone
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0883448246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s
Author: James H. Cone
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 1608330400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
Publisher: New Perspectives on the Histor
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813037233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Compares the lives and civil rights views of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X"--OCLC
Author: Cornel West
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0807018104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells. In dialogue with Buschendorf, West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across the decades. He not only rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines. West, in these illuminating conversations with the German scholar and thinker Christa Buschendorf, describes Douglass as a complex man who is both “the towering Black freedom fighter of the nineteenth century” and a product of his time who lost sight of the fight for civil rights after the emancipation. He calls Du Bois “undeniably the most important Black intellectual of the twentieth century” and explores the more radical aspects of his thinking in order to understand his uncompromising critique of the United States, which has been omitted from the American collective memory. West argues that our selective memory has sanitized and even “Santaclausified” Martin Luther King Jr., rendering him less radical, and has marginalized Ella Baker, who embodies the grassroots organizing of the civil rights movement. The controversial Malcolm X, who is often seen as a proponent of reverse racism, hatred, and violence, has been demonized in a false opposition with King, while the appeal of his rhetoric and sincerity to students has been sidelined. Ida B. Wells, West argues, shares Malcolm X’s radical spirit and fearless speech, but has “often become the victim of public amnesia.” By providing new insights that humanize all of these well-known figures, in the engrossing dialogue with Buschendorf, and in his insightful introduction and powerful closing essay, Cornel West takes an important step in rekindling the Black prophetic fire.
Author: Cone, James H.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2022-11-03
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1608339432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"How two forms of song helped sustain slaves and their children in the midst of tribulation. With a new introduction by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes"--
Author: Gerald Posner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-04-16
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1480412279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A deep dive into James Earl Ray’s role in the national tragedy: “Superb . . . a model of investigation . . . as gripping as a first-class detective story” (The New York Times). On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, by a single assassin’s bullet. A career criminal named James Earl Ray was seen fleeing from a rooming house that overlooked the hotel balcony from where King was cut down. An international manhunt ended two months later with Ray’s capture. Though Ray initially pled guilty, he quickly recanted and for the rest of his life insisted he was an unwitting pawn in a grand conspiracy. In Killing the Dream, expert investigative reporter Gerald Posner reexamines Ray and the evidence, even tracking down the mystery man Ray claimed was the conspiracy’s mastermind. Beginning with an authoritative biography of Ray’s life, and continuing with a gripping account of the assassination and its aftermath, Posner cuts through phony witnesses, false claims, and a web of misinformation surrounding that tragic spring day in 1968. He puts Ray’s conspiracy theory to rest and ultimately manages to disclose what really happened the day King was murdered.
Author: Alice Fleming
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1402744390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author: Gabriel A. Scott
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2010-02-16
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1434904237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Martin Luther King (Jr.)
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780312199906
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Quotations by the civil rights leader cover such issues as race, justice, and human dignity.
Author: Peniel E. Joseph
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1541617851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the shield. The struggle for black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy, the movement's militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield, Peniel E. Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era they came to define.