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This Worldwide Struggle - Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
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This Worldwide Struggle - Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
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This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of
the Civil Rights Movement examines a group of black Christian
intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even to other
religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could transform
American democracy. From the 1930s to the 1950s, this core group
drew lessons from independence movements around for the world for
an American campaign that would be part of a global network of
resistance to colonialism and white supremacy. This book argues
that their religious perspectives and methods of moral reasoning
developed a theological blueprint for what Bayard Rustin called the
"classical phase" of the Civil Rights Movement. Existing
scholarship on the book's main figures, including Howard Thurman,
Benjamin Mays, and William Stuart Nelson, pioneers of African
American Christian nonviolence James Farmer, Pauli Murray, and
Bayard Rustin, and YWCA leaders Juliette Derricotte and Sue Bailey
Thurman, focuses on individuals and misses important streams of
influence and creative collaborations. This book traces fertile
intersections of worldwide resistance movements, explores American
racial politics and interreligious exchanges that crossed literal
borders and disciplinary boundaries, enriches our understanding of
the international roots of the Civil Rights Movement, and offers
lessons on the role of religion in justice movements.
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