Mentors of an American Gandhi
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Jan 19, 2019
Book Review
Author Gary Dorrien explores the radical Martin Luther King and his influences
A woman holds a portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
during the 2011 dedication of the King memorial at the National Mall in
Washington. (CNS/Reuters/Yuri Gripas)
BREAKING WHITE SUPREMACY: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND THE BLACK SOCIAL GOSPEL
632 pages; Yale University Press
$45.00
In 2018, we marked the 50th anniversary of
the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It is a fitting
time to relook at the life and witness of this young black Baptist
minister and the historic impact his life, brief as it was, had on the
history of the United States and the world.
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Gary Dorrien, in this massive, thoroughly researched work, expands on an assertion first made in an earlier work, The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel.
In that work, he looked the founders of the black social gospel
movement, ministers like Reverdy C. Ransom, Henry McNeal Turner and
Richard Wright (all three of the African Methodist Episcopal Church) and
Alexander Crummell (Episcopal), as well as activist women such as
Nannie Helen Burroughs and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
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