Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. West, Cornel

Description

1. xvi, 300 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Every year, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is celebrated as one of the greatest orators in US history, an ambassador for nonviolence who became perhaps the most recognizable leader of the civil rights movement. But after more than forty years, few people appreciate how truly radical he was. Arranged thematically in four parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and introduced by Dr. Cornel West, that illustrate King's revolutionary vision, underscoring his identification with the poor, his unapologetic opposition to the Vietnam War, and his crusade against global imperialism. As West writes, "Although much of America did not know the radical King--and too few know today--the FBI and US government did. They called him 'the most dangerous man in America.' This book unearths a radical King that we can no longer sanitize."

Series statement

1. The King Legacy series
2. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. Works. Selections (The King Legacy)

Uniform title

1. Works. Selections (West)

Alternative title

1. Works.

Subject

1. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
2. Speeches, addresses, etc
3. Speeches
4. Sermons
5. Excerpts
6. Civil rights > United States
7. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Political and social views
8. Passive resistance
9. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Philosophy
10. Black author
11. Unites States
12. Nonviolence
13. Political and social views
14. Lectures
15. Philosophy

Genre/Form

1. Excerpts.
2. Lectures.
3. Sermons.
4. Speeches.

Contents

1. Part I. Radical love -- The violence of desperate men -- Palm Sunday sermon on Mohandas K. Gandhi -- Pilgrimage to nonviolence -- Loving your enemies -- What is your life's blueprint? -- Part II. Prophetic vision: global analysis and local praxis -- The world house -- All the great religions of the world -- My Jewish brother -- The Middle East question -- Let my people go -- Honoring Dr. Du Bois -- Part III. The revolution of nonviolent resistance: against empire and white supremacy -- Letter from Birmingham Jail -- Nonviolence and social change -- My talk with Ben Bella -- Jawaharlal Nehru, a leader in the long anti-colonial struggle -- Where do we go from here -- Black power -- Beyond Vietnam: a time to break silence -- Part IV. Overcoming the tyranny of poverty and hatred -- The bravest man I ever met -- The other America -- All labor has dignity -- The drum major instinct -- I've been to the mountaintop.

Call number

1. Sc E 15-282

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.

Author

1. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

Title

1. The radical King / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; edited and introduced by Cornel West.

Publisher

1. Boston : Beacon Press, [2015]

Copyright date

1. ©2015

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Creator/contributor characteristics

1. African Americans
2. Civil rights workers
3. Americans
4. Clergy
5. Men

Series

1. The King Legacy series
2. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. Works. Selections (The King Legacy)

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. West, Cornel, editor, writer of introduction.

LCCN

1. 2014022515

Other standard identifier

1. 99961506304

ISBN

1. 9780807012826 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
2. 0807012823 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 15-282
2. JFE 17-3378