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Author Dixie, Quinton Hosford.

Title Visions of a better world : Howard Thurman's pilgrimage to India and the origins of African American nonviolence / Quinton Dixie & Peter Eisenstadt.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. THURMAN, H.    Storage
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  280.4092 DIX    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 THURMAN, HOW    Check Shelf
Description xxv, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-227) and index.
Contents Southern boy, Morehouse man, Rochester scholar -- Starting a career -- Planning the pilgrimage of friendship -- The Negro Delegation in India -- What Thurman learned from India -- Thurman's war and the creation of the Fellowship Church -- Epilogue: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus and the disinherited.
Subject Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981 -- Travel -- India.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India -- History -- 20th century.
Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981 -- Political and social views.
Nonviolence -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
African American theologians -- Biography.
African American Baptists -- Biography.
African American pacifists -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights -- United States -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
Added Author Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954-
ISBN 9780807000458 (hardcover : acid-free paper) : $34.95
0807000450 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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