There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King Jr.

by Lewis V. Baldwin

Book Overview

The sources of Martin Luther King, Jr., 's phenomenal and prophetic impact on life in America and beyond have never been adequately understood. In this path-breaking volume, Lewis Baldwin traces King's vision and activism not to his formal philosophical and theological development but directly to his roots in Southern black culture, where King spent most of his 39 years.

King's appropriation of the Bible, Gandhi, American participatory democracy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800624572
• ISBN13: 9780800624576
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"