Letters to a Birmingham Jail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letters to a Birmingham Jail write by Bryan Loritts. This book was released on 2014-03-26. Letters to a Birmingham Jail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Much has transpired in the half-century since, and progress has been made in the issues that were close to Dr. King’s heart. Thankfully, the burning crosses, biting police dogs, and angry mobs of that day are long gone. But in their place, passivity has emerged. A passivity that must be addressed. That’s the aim of Letters to a Birmingham Jail. A collection of essays written by men of various ethnicities and ages, this book encourages us to pursue Christ exalting diversity. Each contribution recognizes that only the cross and empty tomb of Christ can bring true unity, and each notes that the gospel demands justice in all its forms. This was a truth that Dr. King fought and gave his life for, and this is a truth that these modern day "drum majors for justice" continue to beat.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from Birmingham Jail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letter from Birmingham Jail write by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.. This book was released on 2018. Letter from Birmingham Jail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.
Gospel of Freedom
Gospel of Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gospel of Freedom write by Jonathan Rieder. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Gospel of Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first ever trade history of a landmark of American letters--Martin Luther King Jr's legendary Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Blessed Are the Peacemakers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blessed Are the Peacemakers write by S. Jonathan Bass. This book was released on 2021-03-03. Blessed Are the Peacemakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. Personally addressed to eight white Birmingham clergy who sought to avoid violence by publicly discouraging King’s civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, the nationally published “Letter” captured the essence of the struggle for racial equality and provided a blistering critique of the gradualist approach to racial justice. It soon became part of American folklore, and the image of King penning his epistle from a prison cell remains among the most moving of the era. Yet, as S. Jonathan Bass explains in the first comprehensive history of King’s “Letter,” this image and the piece’s literary appeal conceal a much more complex tale. This updated edition of Blessed Are the Peacemakers includes a new foreword by Paul Harvey, a new afterword by James C. Cobb, and a new epilogue by the author.
Why We Can't Wait
Why We Can't Wait - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why We Can't Wait write by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. This book was released on 2011-01-11. Why We Can't Wait available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963—during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Asia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.” King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’”
