Sublime

Southern Democrats on Capitol Hill had long been able to count confidently on support for their anti–civil rights stands from conservative Republicans (and not a few Democrats) from midwestern or Mountain States with negligible black populations. During the last two or three years, however, the years of Brown and Till and Lucy and Martin Luther Kin

One sermon in particular stood out. Dr. Evans Crawford came to Rankin in 1958, when I was twenty-three years old, and spoke of how every individual should create his or her own tensions in life. In other words, we should not let others

In order to “win a man to your cause,” Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, “the great high road to his reason.”

Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. may have understood American Protestantism better than anyone. By staging resistance at the center of ordinary life (again on buses and at diners), he revealed an overwhelming lack of flourishing.

listen, the civil rights movement argued that America

Lyndon Johnson was eventually to attain the post to which he had aspired all his life. And when he did, he would as President of the United States ram to passage the great Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, legislation that would do much to correct the deficiencies of the 1957 legislation. He would give black Americans a Voting Rights Act that was

And I think you are being judgmental about the ‘Star’ pole of the tension. This is something for you to look at. Martin Luther King, Jr., would not have been able to serve unless he had been able to take the spotlight when it was very dangerous for someone with his background to do so.