Martin Luther King Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolent resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate of their own human worth.'' It traces the phenomenal journey of a community, and shows how the twenty-eight-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transformed the nation—and the world.
"Martin Luther King's early words return to us today with enormous power, as profoundly true, as wise and inspiring, now as when he wrote them fifty years ago."
—Howard Zinn
Dear Friends,
I just finished re-reading Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
Something I took away from this reading was how helpless the animals were to the corruption of the pigs because they could not remember their own history. They were cold and hungry, they knew, but could not recall if it was any better or worse than when Farmer Jones ran things. Too much time had passed, and no one made a point of recording the events after The Rebellion.
Not only is it Black History Month, but the unparalleled people's historian Howard Zinn passed away on January 27. Even more than usual, I encourage you to embrace the study of history (black history is also American history, of course) as a personal responsibility.
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, he lays out his thoughts, plans and dreams for America's future, including the need for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and quality education.
In this frank, personal account of growing up black during the era of the civil rights movement, Morrison-Reed wrestles with racism, the death of Martin Luther King, black radicalism, his interracial family, and his experience as one of the first black Unitarian Universalist ministers.
Portraits of racism in liberal religion tell the stories of two pioneering black ministers. Includes accounts of some of today's more integrated UU congregations, plus biographical notes on past and present black Unitarian, Universalist and UU ministers.
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