Hope and history
Subtitle: why we must share the story of the movement
By: Vincent Harding.
Edition: [Rev. 2nd ed.].
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Maryknoll, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781570758577
Subjects: Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Study and teaching; African Americans -- Civil rights; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Study and teaching; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Race relations -- Study and teaching
Description: An impassioned call to the clergy, community activists, and educators to remember and keep alive the story of the black-led freedom movement. Harding argues the importance of knowing for ourselves, incorporating into our lives, and teaching to others the events and goals of this historic movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Lerone Bennett, Jr.; title: Preface to revised edition; title: Making democracy a reality; title: Introduction; title: Moving beyond the boundaries; title: Signs ... signs ... turn visible again; title: The transformative uses of biography; title: Advanced ideas about democracy; title: Rediscovering humanity's great lessons at home; title: More power than we know; title: Recollecting the young warriors; title: Fighting for freedom with church fans; title: To know what religion means; title: God's appeal to this age; title: The search for alternatives to violence; title: Gifts of the Black movement; title: Toward a new birth of freedom; title: Poets, musicians, and magicians; title: Prophetic Black artists of the new creation; title: Doing the right thing in Mississippi and Brooklyn; title: How shall we connect?; title: In search of the world; title: A geography of freedom; title: Is America possible?; title: The land that never has been yet; title: One final, soaring hope; title: Building the campgrounds of renewal; title: Letters to teachers in religious communities and institutions; title: Our children are waiting for the music; title: A letter to my brother and son, the president.