Building the Beloved Community - Maurice McCrackin's Life for Peace and Civil Rights

Bechtel, Judith A. and Robert M. Coughlin

ISBN 10: 0877227837 / ISBN 13: 9780877227830

Edité par First edition, published by Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsyvania, 1991., 1991

A propos de cet article

Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is very lightly bumped at spine tips and top corners and has a light scratch on back panel. 285 pages with index, bibliography and a few illustrations.

N° de réf. du vendeur 17802

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Building the Beloved Community - Maurice McCrackin's Life for Peace and Civil Rights
• Éditeur: First edition, published by Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsyvania, 1991.
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0877227837
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780877227830
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Sociology
  • Biography/Autobiography

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Synopsis

This biography of Maurice McCrackin, now in his mid-eighties, chronicles how one manas story interweaves with many of the crucial social issues of the past fifty years: integration, civil rights, McCarthyism, schooling, the arms build-up, poverty, treatment of prisoners, and homelessness, among others. As pastor to various congregations throughout the midwest, McCrackin chose social change as his mission and addressed international issues in his sermons in order to make connections between the global and the personal. As an active participant in the Fellowship of Reconciliation, he found ways to inject pacifism into the daily activities of a poor Cincinnati neighborhood. An effective leader and negotiator, his ability to achieve integration within his environment was due to his understanding of collaboration and mutual empowerment as well as his gentleness and good humor. From World War II through recent liberation struggles in Central America, tumultuous events provided a stage for Maurice McCrackinas ministry. Building the Beloved Community details the terrible price Reverend Maurice McCrackin paid for his peace and civil rights activismdefrocking, public vilification, numerous jailingsand the widespread honor and vindication he has earned in recent years for his lifetime of service. Author note: Judith A. Bechtel is Associate Professor of Literature and Language at Northern Kentucky University. Robert M. Coughlin is Associate Professor of English at Lakeland Community College in Mentor, Ohio.

Biographie de l'auteur

Judith A. Blackburn (formerly Bechtel) is a Professor Emerita of Literature and Language at Northern Kentucky University. Mother and grandmother, she is a community activist, serving on several nonprofit boards. Robert M. Coughlin is Associate Professor of English at Lakeland Community College in Mentor, Ohio. He lives with his wife and daughters in Chardon, Ohio.