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Description edit
This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as "a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled," Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare. Cone cuts through superficial... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Malcolm: Add a description of this character.
- Martin King
- Elijah Muhammad
- Martin Luther King
- Kennedy
- Allah
- Bayard Rustin
- Alex Haley
- Johnson
- Gandhi
- Muslim
- Kenneth Clark
- Paul
- Dexter
- Roy Wilkins
- Reginald
- Marcus Garvey
- Adam Clayton Powell
- James Baldwin
- Marx
- Jim Crow
- Ralph Abernathy
- Stanley Levison
- Wyatt Tee Walker
- Whitney Young
- Daddy King
- Jim Clark
- Jesse Jackson
- A. Philip Randolph
- Wallace D. Fard
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- David
- Tom
- Ossie Davis
- Louis Lomax
Setting & Locations edit
- North America
- United States
- Harlem
- South Africa
- Birmingham
- Washington
- Atlanta
- New York City
- Nation Of Islam
- Chicago
- Vietnam
- Selma
- Mississippi
- Sncc
- Alabama
- Montgomery
- Europe
- Asia
- Georgia
- Egypt
- Boston
- Ghana
- Albany
- Mecca
- Middle East
- Detroit
- Congo
- D.c.
- Ebenezer Baptist Church
- Los Angeles
- India
- Morehouse
- Crozer
- Roxbury
- Michigan
- London
- White America
- Lansing
- Latin America
- Paris
- Nigeria
- Kenya
- Watts
- Britain
- Memphis
First Sentence edit
No one has communicated the idea of the American dream with greater moral and oratorical power, with greater political and religious imagination, than Martin Luther King, Jr.
Authors & Contributors edit
- James H. Cone (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Orbis Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0883447215
Page Count: 358
Publisher: Orbis Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0883447215
Page Count: 358
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973.0496073022
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century › 1960s
- Books › History › Americas › United States › African Americans › History
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › African-American Studies
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › Ethnic Studies
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Religious Studies › Sociology
- Books › Law › Constitutional Law › Human Rights
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Other Practices › African American
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Religious
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Ethnic & National › African-American & Black
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