Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Experience in America

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9002006
AutoresSidney M Willhelm (State University of New York, Buffalo, autor de correspondencia)
Año1979
Volumen10
Número1
Páginas3-19
Fecha de publicación1979-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002193477901000101
OpenAlexW2062356833
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas17

During his lifetime Martin Luther King, Jr. justifiably received numerous citations and recognition for his accomplishments to better the lot of oppressed people. Standing in the limelight of the Civil Rights struggle he became, during the 'fifties, one of the foremost Black leaders within America. Such acclaim, however, seems to overwhelm an equally deserving consideration, namely, the significance of King's written works. A mere handful of people bother to acknowledge that King wrote extensively during his lifetime; few dare to probe his writings seriously in terms of accuracy, perception, and prediction of the future with respect to the Black condition in a White America. Inasmuch as social scientists are inclined to cast leaders of a social movement into a charismatic mold, there is little likelihood of perceiving King other than as a maker of events and, upon death, a mere historical figure, for a certain moment of racial strife, who never gained, in spite of numerous publications, academic standing as a major interpreter of Black-White relations in America. This in spite of the fact that even revolutionaries, in articulating the realities of social oppression, often prove more perceptive than erstwhile

Art · Civil rights · Martin luther king · Political science · Sociology · Theology · American Political and Social Dynamics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society