Sarah n harvey biography of martin luther

          Sarah was a lifelong resident of Atlantic City, New Jersey and was born on June 4, to the late John Oliver Sr. and the late Susie Oliver in.

        1. Harvey's concise biography will allow readers to see King anew in the context of his time and today.
        2. Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year.
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        4. The year-old Vienna native has been involved with the Mid-Ohio Valley Ballet Company for a number of years after being encouraged by a friend.

          5. Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year..

          Martin Luther King: A Religious Life

          Historian and professor Harvey (The Color of Christ) plumbs the background and writings of Martin Luther King Jr.

          to provocatively build a religious frame around the civil rights leader’s beliefs and tactics. Delving into the formative intellectual and theological influences on King’s writings and activities, Harvey’s approach is not primarily as a biographer but rather a close reader of the evolution of King’s thought; as Harvey notes, “King’s radicalism had deep roots.

          The black religious tradition informed him through its history of protest and proclamation.” King’s ways of thinking are considered across his accomplishments and failures in civil rights campaigns including in Montgomery, Selma, and Chicago.

          Throughout, Harvey stresses King’s unwavering commitment to nonviolence; his political realism, derived in part from his study of Reinhold Niebuhr; and his fundamental economic radicalism. (King first read Karl Marx in 1949 while in seminar