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Against the hounds of hell : a life of Howard Thurman /

"A biography of the American theologian and educator Howard Thurman. Thurman was a prominent African American civil rights leader who influenced many in his work for social justice, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2021]
Series:American South series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "With our Negro guests"
  • Deep river: a Daytona boyhood
  • "My people need me": high school years
  • "The personification of the Morehouse ideal"
  • "The sound of rushing water": Rochester Theological Seminary
  • A new prophet in Oberlin
  • "A technique of survival for the underprilileged": a return to Atlanta
  • In Black Athens: Howard University
  • Delivering the message of nonviolence: lessons from India
  • Footsteps of a war, footprints of a dream
  • In the queen of cities: building community in San Francisco
  • Against the hounds of hell
  • Disciplines and resources: at Boston University
  • "The stillness of absolute motion": the wider ministry
  • Common ground? Coming aground?: "the cataclysms of the Civil Rights revolution"
  • With head and heart.
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index