1st Edition

Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South Resistance and Non-Violence

Edited By Preston King, Walter Earl Fluker Copyright 2005
328 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

A new collection of philosophical biographies of key figures in Black Southern American social and political thought Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall and Martin King are focused upon, together with Howard Thurman, Richard Wright, Fred Gray and Barbara Jordan. All are important in various ways to the movements this book seeks out. From the perspective... Read more

Preface  1. Theory in History: Foundations of Resistance and Non-Violence in the American South  2. Frederick Douglass and the Ideology of Resistance  3. Booker Washington: 'We Wear the Mask'  4. Ida Wells and the Management of Violence  5.    Dangerous Memories and Redemptive Possibilities:  Reflections on the Life and Work of Howard Thurman  6. Thurgood Marshall’s Pursuit of Equality Through Law  7. Richard Wright and Black Radical Discourse: The Advocacy of Violence  8. Martin Luther King: Resistance, Non-Violence and Community  9. Destroying Everything Segregated I Could Find Fred Gray and the Legal Campaign for Integration in Alabama  10. Barbara Jordan: The Politics of Insertion and Accommodation

Biography

Preston King is Distinguished Professor of Political Philosophy at Morehouse College, Woodruff Professor at Emory University, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at The University of East Anglia.

Walter Earl Fluker is Coca Cola Professor of Leadership Studies, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, and Director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College. He has held positions at Harvard, Vanderbilt, and elsewhere.