Long journey
Subtitle: Dr. Benjamin E. Mays speaks on the struggle for social justice in America
By: edited by Freddie C. Colston
Contributors: Colston, Freddie C., editor; Cook, Samuel DuBois, 1927- writer of supplementary textual content
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington, Indiana]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781456847203; 9781456847210
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Race relations; African American orators; Civil rights; African American college presidents; Social justice; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; Civil rights movements; African American authors; African Americans; Biography
Other titles: Dr. Benjamin E. Mays speaks on the struggle for social justice in America
Work titles: Speeches
Description: "This volume contains twenty-one speeches on the long and enduring struggle for equal rights, from one of America's finest scholars and orators on race relations in American history, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays. He witnessed races relations (1920s-1980s), and the transformation of America from a rigidly segregated soiety to a desegregated social structure"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreward : Benjamin E. Mays and the divine struggle for social and racial justice / Samuel DuBois Cook; title: Introduction : Dr. Benjamin E. Mays and the struggle for social justice in America / [Freddie C. Colston]; title: The walls of segregation. Religion and racial tensions ; Economic freedom : an essential part of the full freedom of the democratic way of life ; The emerging South in the area of human relations ; Brotherhood, a moral imperative ; The Negro, the Supreme Court, and the social revolution in the South; title: Massive nonviolent resistance. One of the oldest methods of social protest is violence; title: war ; Social revolution and progress in human relations in the south ; Emancipation Proclamation one hundreth anniversary ; Nonviolent revolution and social change ; We have traveled a long way, but the end of the journey is nowhere in sight ; Democracy and civil rights ; Black power vs. white power; title: Desegregation : the post-civil rights era. The black man's environment and his minority status, a challenge to the black church ; Human rights in the 1970s and beyond ; The second two hundred years ; Civil rights from 1954 to 1974 ; Freedom and the doctrine of nonviolent resistance ; Racism ; After 359 years of struggle, where are we now? ; Looking back "eighty" years from 1894 to the present ; Martin Luther King Jr.; title: Conclusions ; Epilogue : the election of Barack H. Obama as the fourty-fourth President of the United States / [Freddie C. Colston].