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CONTENTS Foreword ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xix Introduction 1 Part I. Part I. Roots of Protest and Nonviolence in the King Family Roots of Protest and Nonviolence in the King Family Paternal Grandparents 1. 17 Maternal Grandparents 2. 33 Parents 3. 49 Part II. Part II. Formal Intellectual Influences Formal Intellectual Influences The Walter Rauschenbusch Factor 4. 77 The Christian Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr 5. 101 Part III. Part III. A Preacher and Some Women Pave the Way A Preacher and Some Women Pave the Way Vernon Napoleon Johns: “God’s Bad Boy” 6. 147 Black Women Trailblazers 7. 171 Part IV. Part IV. Christian Love and Gandhian Nonviolence Christian Love and Gandhian Nonviolence Gandhian Influence and the Formal Elements of King’s Nonviolence 8. 221 Training in Nonviolence 9. 283 Part V. Part V. Where Do We Go from Here? Where Do We Go from Here? Enduring Racism: What Can Be Done to Keep Hope Alive? 10. 319 Index 365 vii ...

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