An edition of Long journey
(2011)
Long journey
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays speaks on the struggle for social justice in America
by Benjamin E. Mays
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"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.
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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, BiographyPeople
Benjamin E. Mays (1894-1984)Places
United States, Southern StatesTimes
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Long journey: Dr. Benjamin E. Mays speaks on the struggle for social justice in America
2011, Xlibris Corporation
in English
1456847201 9781456847203
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Table of Contents
Foreward : Benjamin E. Mays and the divine struggle for social and racial justice / Samuel DuBois Cook
Introduction : Dr. Benjamin E. Mays and the struggle for social justice in America / [Freddie C. Colston]
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
Massive nonviolent resistance. One of the oldest methods of social protest is violence
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
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.
Conclusions ; Epilogue : the election of Barack H. Obama as the fourty-fourth President of the United States / [Freddie C. Colston].
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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