Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South

Resistance and Non-Violence

Preston King, Walter Earl Fluker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136826740
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

A new collection of philosophical biographies of key figures in Black Southern American social and political thought

Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall and Martin King are focused upon, together with Howard Thurman, Richard Wright, Fred Gray and Barbara Jordan. All are important in various ways to the movements this book seeks out. From the perspective of liberation, the two high points in the African-American Odyssey are marked by Emancipation in the nineteenth century and Desegregation in the twentieth. Douglass bestriding the first, King and Marshall the second.

The thread of resistance runs through most of these philosophical profiles, and the thread of non-violence, with greater or less force, also runs throughout. This volume assumes a distinction between (a) an earlier period when Afro-America was more cohesive and collectively committed to self-improvement despite the odds, and (b) the contemporary period, beyond desegregation, marked by rates never previously rivaled of suicide, joblessness, imprisonment, despair and alienation, especially among black poor. The life stories and philosophies presented here make fascinating reading.

This book is a Special Issue of the leading journal, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

INDEX

Abernathy, Ralph 258, 264, 267

Afro-American Council 45

agape 238, 239, 249

Aikin, 57

Alabama State College 253, 262, 266, 271–272, 273–275

Algren, Nelson 214

Ali, Muhammad 299

Althusser, Louis 211

Ambrose, Alice 151, 152

Ambrose, Nancy 153–154

American Anti-Slavery Society 61

American Baptist Convention 230

American Equal Rights Association 68

American Federation of Teachers 184

‘A Nation in the Midst of a Nation’ 60

Anderson, James D. 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 107

Andrews, William L. 65

Anthony, Captain 55

Anthony, Susan B. 68

Arendt, Hannah 130

Aristotle 128

Armstrong, General Samuel Chapman 97–98, 99

Arnold, Matthew 209

Ashe, Arthur 158

Atlanta Address 26, 77–79, 82–83, 204, 281

Atlantic Monthly 211, 295

Auburn University 268, 273–274

Augustine, St 139, 250

Auld, Hugh 56–57, 58

Auld, Lucretia 56, 63

Auld, Thomas 12, 24, 58

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 205

‘Autobiography of Religious Development’ 229

Autographs for Freedom 65

Bailey, Betsy and Isaac 54

Bailey, Harriet 54

Baker, Ella 184

Baldwin, James 116

Baldwin, Roger 181

Balkin, Jack M. 177

Ballard, Barbara 11

Bamboozled 85

Bandung Conference 203

Barnes, Lieutenant Governor Ben 292, 295

Barnett, Fe...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Theory in History: Foundations of Resistance and Nonviolence in the American South
• Frederick Douglass and the Ideology of Resistance
• Booker T. Washington: ‘We Wear the Mask’
• Ida B. Wells and the Management of Violence
• Dangerous Memories and Redemptive Possibilities: Reflections on the Life and Work of Howard Thurman
• Thurgood Marshall's Pursuit of Equality through Law
• Richard Wright and Black Radical Discourse: The Advocacy of Violence
• Martin Luther King: Resistance, Nonviolence and Community
• ‘Destroying Everything Segregated I Could Find’: Fred Gray and Integration in Alabama
• Barbara Jordan: The Politics of Insertion and Accommodation
• Index