Against the hounds of hell : a life of Howard Thurman

Eisenstadt, Peter R. 1954- (author.).

Summary: "A biography of the American theologian and educator Howard Thurman. Thurman was a prominent African American civil rights leader who influenced many in his work for social justice, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr"--

Record details

ISBN: 081394452X
ISBN: 9780813944524
Physical Description: xv, 525 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: "With our Negro guests" -- Deep river: a Daytona boyhood -- "My people need me": high school years -- "The personification of the Morehouse ideal" -- "The sound of rushing water": Rochester Theological Seminary -- A new prophet in Oberlin -- "A technique of survival for the underprilileged": a return to Atlanta -- In Black Athens: Howard University -- Delivering the message of nonviolence: lessons from India -- Footsteps of a war, footprints of a dream -- In the queen of cities: building community in San Francisco -- Against the hounds of hell -- Disciplines and resources: at Boston University -- "The stillness of absolute motion": the wider ministry -- Common ground? Coming aground?: "the cataclysms of the Civil Rights revolution" -- With head and heart.