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Extremist for love : Martin Luther King Jr., man of ideas and nonviolent social action /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burrow, Rufus, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2014]
Subjects:
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968.
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Political and social views.
Nonviolence > United States > History > 20th century.
Social action > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
Baptists > United States > Clergy > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century > Sources.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Lewis V. Baldwin
  • Part 1. Familial Roots of Protest and Nonviolence
  • Paternal Grandparents (James and Delia King)
  • Maternal Grandparents (Adam Daniel and Jennie C. Williams)
  • Parents (Martin Luther and Alberta King)
  • Part 2. Formal and Intellectual Influences
  • The Walter Rauschenbusch Factor
  • The Christian Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Part 3. A Preacher and Some Women Pave the Way
  • Vernon Napoleon Johns : "God's Bad Boy"
  • Black Women Trailblazers
  • Part 4. Christian Love and Gandhian Nonviolence
  • Gandhian Influence and the Formal Elements of King's Nonviolence
  • Training in Nonviolence
  • Part 5. Where Do We Go From Here?
  • Enduring Racism : What Can be done to Keep Hope Alive?