Ring Out Freedom!: The Voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

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Index 265 265 Index absolute morality in King’s rhetoric, 22, 29–30 acceptable year of the Lord, 66–67 African-American religious tradition, 8, 41, 43, 49, 57–58, 79. See also Baptist church agape, 25, 63 Alabama State University, 155 allusion in King’s rhetoric, 10, 79; to African Americans, 203; to American political figures, 89, 95, 97, 103, 106–107, 151, 185, 202; to artists, 119–121; to international political leaders, 106, 155–156, 159, 167–173; to literary figures, 81–82, 89–90, 103, 109, 111, 195; to philosophers , 82, 84–87, 91–94, 103, 105–106, 109, 111; and radicalism , 106, 196; to scientists, 98, 109, 111–112; to social activists, 84–85, 87, 99; to theologians, 82, 84–88, 94–95, 103, 105, 109 American political tradition, 10, 95–97, 99, 117, 147, 211–212. See also Constitution; Declaration of Independence; Emancipation Proclamation; freedom; oppression; segregation An American Dilemma, 136 “The American Dream,” 33 “America’s Chief Moral Dilemma,” 93, 102, 104, 106 Annual Institute on Non-Violence and Social Change, 71 Ansbro, John, 11 anthropology, 97–98 “Antidotes for Fear,” 109 Aquinas, Thomas, 95, 109 Aristotle, 82, 91–92, 111 assimilation, 123, 137–142, 144. See also ethnicity paradigm; integration Attucks, Crispus, 196 Augustine, Saint, 95, 103 Baptist church, 8, 35. See also Dexter Avenue Baptist Church; Ebenezer Baptist Church; Holt Street Baptist Church; Second Baptist Church; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Barth, Karl, 86 beloved community, 9, 20, 71–74, 76–77, 200, 243n77 Benedict, Ruth, 98 Bentham, Jeremy, 82, 84–85 Beyond the Melting Pot, 137 “Beyond Vietnam,” 188, 194 Bhoodanists, 163 biology, 97–98; and notions of race, 136–137 Birmingham campaign to integrate public facilities, 4, 116–117, 232 “The Birth of a New Nation,” 165– 176, 183 black church. See AfricanAmerican religious tradition Black Power, 4–5, 142–144, 203– 204, 213, 225–226, 228–229, 266 Index 250n24 Boston University, 87–88, 244n22, 245n23 British Empire, 166, 171, 183. See also colonialism, global struggles against brotherhood, 52–53, 55, 207, 210– 211, 214, 219–220; and whites, 218 Brown v Board of Education, 18 Bryant, William Cullen, 89, 245n30 Buber, Martin, 91, 93–94, 103, 105, 246n34 A Call to Conscience, 5 Carlyle, Thomas, 89, 245n30 Carmichael, Stokely, 143, 186, 226, 250n24 Carson, Clayborne, 5, 250n24 Castro, Fidel, 106 Chambers, Whittaker, 103, 247n45 Chaos or Community, 126, 142, 148, 150, 195, 225–226 Chicago campaign for fair housing, 5, 195, 213, 198. See also ghettoes; housing; North Christianity: as the basis for King’s civil rights rhetoric, 23, 25–27, 32, 39, 50, 58–59, 74–75, 99, 101–102, 110, 131–134, 190– 191, 212, 228; as a force for righteousness, 56, 149; incompatibility with racial discrimination , 51, 55, 60, 125, 129; struggle to determine meaning of, 61, 64–66, 83, 92–93, 95. See also church; “The Church on Frontier of Racial Tension” Christianity and the Social Crisis, 82 “A Christmas Sermon on Peace,” 214, 216–219 church: as agent of change, 55; bombed in Birmingham, 214; as bridge between faith and society, 50; as conscience of society, 62, 66; as leading social institution, 56–59, 74; as political institution, 56; responsibility of, 51–54, 61–65; typological function of, 64. See also African-American religious tradition; Baptist church “The Church on Frontier of Racial Tension,” 12, 21, 50–51, 55, 61, 63 Civil Rights Act, 5, 105, 143, 152, 185, 187, 200, 202, 206, 232 civil rights movement: and civil disobedience, 44, 208, 232; and Cold War, 176–177, 180, 182; and democratic values, 182; internal conflict in, 4; King as leader of, 2, 95–96, 110; post1965 , 19, 143, 184, 216, 222– 223, 229, 231–233; pre-1965, 16, 19, 229–230; and relationship to federal government, 186–187, 204, 208–209; and Vietnam, 186, 189. See also Birmingham campaign to integrate public facilities; Black Power; Chicago campaign for fair housing; Civil Rights Act; demands of civil rights movement; March on Washington; Montgomery bus boycott; Poor People’s Campaign ; religion; Southern Christian Leadership Conference ; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Voting Rights Act Cold War, 53, 83, 155–156, 164, 176, 180–183, 189, 194. See also communism; “How Should a Christian View Communism?”; McCarthy, Joseph colonialism, global struggles against, 13, 155, 160, 164–165, 167, 171, 175, 181, 183, 192, 194, 217. See also Ghana; India communism, 83, 92, 127, 177, 180– Index...