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Author:

Dixie, Quinton Hosford.

Title:

Visions of a better world : Howard Thurman's pilgrimage to India and the origins of African American nonviolence / Quinton Dixie & Peter Eisenstadt.

Publisher:

Beacon Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xxv, 246 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Thurman, Howard,--1900-1981--Travel--India.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--India--History--20th century.
Thurman, Howard,--1900-1981--Political and social views.
Nonviolence--History--History--20th century.
Nonviolence--Christianity.--Christianity.
African American theologians--Biography.
African American Baptists--Biography.
African American pacifists--Biography.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
Civil rights--United States--History--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Southern boy, Morehouse man, Rochester scholar -- Starting a career -- Planning the pilgrimage of friendship -- The Negro Delegation in India -- What Thurman learned from India -- Thurman's war and the creation of the Fellowship Church -- Epilogue: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus and the disinherited.

ISBN:

0807000450 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780807000458 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)683593662

LCCN:

2010047377

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)