Visions of a better world
Subtitle: Howard Thurman's pilgrimage to India and the origins of African American nonviolence
By: Quinton H. Dixie & Peter Eisenstadt
Contributors: Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954-
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780807000458
Subjects: Nonviolence; African American pacifists; Civil rights; Philosophy; History; Political and social views; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; African American theologians; Christianity; African Americans; Travel; Biography; African American Baptists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Southern boy, Morehouse man, Rochester scholar; title: Starting a career; title: Planning the pilgrimage of friendship; title: The Negro Delegation in India; title: What Thurman learned from India; title: Thurman's war and the creation of the Fellowship Church; title: Epilogue: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus and the disinherited.