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The cross and the lynching tree /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, ©2011.Description: xix, 202 pages. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781570759376 (cloth)
  • 1570759375 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 277.308 C747C 22
LOC classification:
  • BR563.N4 C648 2011
Contents:
"Nobody knows de trouble I've seen": the cross and the lynching tree in the Black experience -- "The terrible beauty of the cross" and the tragedy of the lynching tree: a reflection on Reinhold Niebuhr -- Bearing the cross and staring down the lynching tree: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s struggle to redeem the soul of America -- The re-crucified Christ in Black literary imagination -- Oh Mary, don't you weep -- Conclusion: legacies of the cross and the lynching tree.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Nobody knows de trouble I've seen": the cross and the lynching tree in the Black experience -- "The terrible beauty of the cross" and the tragedy of the lynching tree: a reflection on Reinhold Niebuhr -- Bearing the cross and staring down the lynching tree: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s struggle to redeem the soul of America -- The re-crucified Christ in Black literary imagination -- Oh Mary, don't you weep -- Conclusion: legacies of the cross and the lynching tree.

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