Against the hounds of hell : a life of Howard thurman / Peter Eisenstadt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954- author.

Series:

The American South series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baptists--United States--Biography.

Baptists.

African American Baptists--Biography.

African American Baptists.

Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981.

Thurman, Howard.

Theologians--United States--Biography.

Theologians.

African American theologians--Biography.

African American theologians.

Educators--United States--Biography.

Educators.

African American educators--Biography.

African American educators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2021]

Summary:

"A biography of the American theologian and educator Howard Thurman. Thurman was a prominent African American civil rights leader who influenced many in his work for social justice, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: "With our Negro guests"

Deep river: a Daytona boyhood

"My people need me": high school years

"The personification of the Morehouse ideal"

"The sound of rushing water": Rochester Theological Seminary

A new prophet in Oberlin

"A technique of survival for the underprilileged": a return to Atlanta

In Black Athens: Howard University

Delivering the message of nonviolence: lessons from India

Footsteps of a war, footprints of a dream

In the queen of cities: building community in San Francisco

Against the hounds of hell

Disciplines and resources: at Boston University

"The stillness of absolute motion": the wider ministry

Common ground? Coming aground?: "the cataclysms of the Civil Rights revolution"

With head and heart.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813944524

081394452X

OCLC:

1191456342