Description: Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero Author: Vincent Harding Title: Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero Publication: Orbis Books, 2008 Description: Paperback. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (5.3 x 0.4 x 8.1 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes epilogue and notes. 176 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New. 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. Seller ID: 100950 Subject: Historical Biographies , Literature , US History The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Vincent Harding
Publisher: Orbis Books
Year Printed: 2008
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
