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Keeping the Dream Alive: A History of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from King to the Nineteen-Eighties - Hardcover

Peake, Thomas R.

 
9780820403977: Keeping the Dream Alive: A History of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from King to the Nineteen-Eighties
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0820403970 ISBN 13: 9780820403977
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1988

Synopsis

This first comprehensive history of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference demonstrates the fallacy of closing the record on the nonviolent movement with the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. After exploring the campaigns, educational programs, experiments in nonviolent social relations, and impact of SCLC in the King years, this study continues the coverage through the 1970s into the middle 1980s. Basing his account on both the King records and, for the first time, the extensive recent materials of SCLC, the author examines the continuity of the organization and its dream in the contemporary world. The result is a spirited account valuable to both the general reader and the student of black Americans and nonviolence. Both the faith and the strategy of the nonviolent dream are shown as vital elements of SCLC in its three decades of activism.

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Review

«...an unusually good account of one of the most important periods in US history... it is a rich book worthy of slow reading.» (Choice)
«This is a fascinating, well-balanced volume based upon several manuscript colle ctions, extensive interviews and substantial knowledge of the secondary literature ... the conscientious reader will gain much from the effort that a short review can only suggest.» (Mark K. Bauman, Atlanta Journal/Constitution)
«For the period after 1968 Peake gives much attention to SCLC's annual conferences and their themes, and his narrative moves across fifteen years giving details of many events, campaigns, policy statements, and personnel changes, making 'Keeping the Dream Alive' a record of continuing value.» (Journal of American Studies)
«Author Peake has produced a needed and valuable study.» (E.Harrell Phillips, The Jackson Sun)

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Publisher
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date
1988
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0820403970
ISBN 13 
9780820403977
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
3
Number of pages
492