Product Description: This unique short-term Bible study combines an in-depth look at Scripture, American history, and the music and lyrics of six African American spirituals. The six-session study provides biblical, social, and historical analyses of the spirituals: 'Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit," "This Lonesome Valley," "Bow Down on Your Knees," "Plenty Good Room," “Ain't Dat Good News," and "Were You There?" Marilyn E...read more

Product Description: What was Martin Luther King Jr. really like? In this groundbreaking volume, Lewis V. Baldwin answers this question by focusing on the man himself. Drawing on the testimonies of friends, family, and closest associates, this volume adds much-needed biographical background to the discussion, as Baldwin looks beyond all of the mythic, messianic, and iconic images to treat King in terms of his fundamental and vivid humanness...read more

Product Description: Martin Luther King Jr. is widely viewed as an American civil rights leader who applied principled and situational nonviolence in efforts to eradicate racism, poverty, and violence in the United States in the 1950s and 60s. It is too often forgotten that he was also a self-proclaimed "world citizen" with a global vision, and that he envisioned the advance of globalization long before most of his contemporaries...read more

Product Description: This Bright Light of Ours offers a tightly focused insider’s view of the community-based activism that was the heart of the civil rights movement. A celebration of grassroots heroes, this book details through first-person accounts the contributions of ordinary people who formed  the nonviolent army that won the fight for voting rights...read more

Product Description: Finally! A short- term Bible Study combining an in-depth look at Scripture, American History, and the musical melodies and rhythms of African American Spirituals! This six-session study provides biblical, social, and historical analysis of the spirituals: Rock-a My Soul  Luke 16:19-26 Go Down Moses  Exodux 3:1-10 Balm in Gilead  Jeremiah 8:18-22 Ain’t Dat Good News?  Mark 8:34-35 Every Time I Feel the Spirit  Acts 2:1-4 Plenty Good Room  John 14:2 Sing and study the spirituals at the same time! Teachers use the leader’s guide for session format, discussion questions, and activities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This unique short-term Bible study combines an in-depth look at Scripture, American history, and the musical melodies and rhythms of African American spirituals! The six-session study provides biblical, social, and historical analyses of the spirituals: "Rock-a My Soul," "Go Down Moses," "Balm in Gilead," "Ain't Dat Good News?," "Every Time I Feel the Spirit," and "Plenty Good Room...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. explores the development of Dr. King’s understanding of the relationship among religion, morality, law, and politics. This fascinating work is part of a broader effort by scholars in various fields to examine unexplored areas in the life, thought, and activism of Martin Luther King, Jr...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A Muslim and Christian scholar join forces to explore the intellectual and spiritual territory separating Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, sometimes joining the two in common space. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Showing how King's life and legacy played--and continue to play--a profound role in the liberation of South Africa from apartheid, this work draws on King's private letters and published works to connect his life and thought with that of South African leaders...read more

Examines King's roots in Black popular culture and their role as the source of his power and vision

Product Description: The fascinating biography of Peter Spencer (1782-1843) who was the most important leader of the Union Church of African Members, the first body of African Methodists to win unconditional independence from white Methodism. Born a slave, Spencer migrated to Wilmington, Delaware, joined the mostly white Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, attended a Quaker school, and soon became the recognized leader of the black people of Delaware...read more