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Title: Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the ""Letter from Birmingham Jail by S. Jonathan Bass ISBN: 0807128007 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Summary: A Special Delivery Letter
Comment: It was just a letter written by a man in jail, on behalf of his race, attempting to address the social injustice of the time-right? Wrong! Martin Luther King's Letter From the Birmingham Jail is much more compelling, and the circumstances surrounding its final composition more complex than the average person knows. Ostensibly written to the eight white clergymen of the embittered and embattled steel city, it was intended for a much wider audience-namely the media and the American public. Blessed Are the Peacemakers provides the reader with individual profiles of the eight and their struggles of conscience as they saw an old social order collapse. What has been taken as the almost spur-of-the-moment reflections of Martin Luther King, in jail for civil disobedience, turns out to be a document much longer in the making and more calculated in its delivery. This disclosure in no way detracts from its rightful place in American folklore or its power in fueling Civil Rights Movement. Rather, it helps us understand the care with which the deep conviction of racial rights was presented. The book is not an apology for the eight clergy, some of whom were more progressive than others, but it does provide much needed insight for the serious student of history into the complex struggles, powerful emotions, and vitrolic attacks perpetrated on even the most moderate voices of the white clergy. What it does not do, of course, is speak of the many white clergy of lesser rank who paid a much higher price for their fight for justice for their black brothers and sisters. Still, to read about these eight leaders, (Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Jewish) and their struggles is instructive. As an Alabama-born, white clergy expatriate from that period, marginally involved in the Civil Rights Movement, I hung on every word. These are reflections that should help black and white readers alike better understand this turbulent period. Statements from the eight white clergy as well as King's Letter are included in the appendix.
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Title: The Americans, the Colonial Experience (A Caravelle Edition) by Daniel J. Boorstin ISBN: 0394705130 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: April, 1964 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0802808484 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith by Justin Edward Tanis ISBN: 0829815287 Publisher: Pilgrim Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther, Jr. King, Jesse L. Jackson Jr ISBN: 0451527534 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability by Nancy L. Eiesland, Rebecca S. Chopp ISBN: 0687108012 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.65 |
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