1963
A01=S. Jonathan Bass
Alabama
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Author_S. Jonathan Bass
Bishop Charles Carpenter
Bishop George Murray
Bishop Joseph Durick
Bishop Nolan Harmon
Category=DSB
Category=JBSL
Category=JPVC
Category=NHK
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Jr.
Pastor Earl Stallings
Pastor Edward Ramage
Pastor Paul Hardin
Rabbi Milton Grafman
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Product details
- ISBN 9780807174784
- Weight: 538g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. Personally addressed to eight white Birmingham clergy who sought to avoid violence by publicly discouraging King's civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, the nationally published "Letter" captured the essence of the struggle for racial equality and provided a blistering critique of the gradualist approach to racial justice. It soon became part of American folklore, and the image of King penning his epistle from a prison cell remains among the most moving of the era. Yet, as S. Jonathan Bass explains in the first comprehensive history of King's "Letter," this image and the piece's literary appeal conceal a much more complex tale.
This updated edition of Blessed Are the Peacemakers includes a new foreword by Paul Harvey, a new afterword by James C. Cobb, and a new epilogue by the author.
This updated edition of Blessed Are the Peacemakers includes a new foreword by Paul Harvey, a new afterword by James C. Cobb, and a new epilogue by the author.
S. Jonathan Bass is professor of history at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and the author of He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty.
