A Child Shall Lead Them: Martin Luther King Jr., Young People, and the Movement

by Rufus Burrow Jr.

Overview

Half a century after some of its most important moments, the assessment of the Civil Rights Era continues. In this exciting volume, Dr. Rufus Burrow turns his attention to a less investigated but critically important byway in this powerful storythe role of children and young people in the Civil Rights Movement.

What role did young people play, and how did they support the efforts of their elders? What did they seeand what did they do? that their elders were unable to envision? How did children play their part in the liberation of their people? In this project, Burrow reveals the surprising power of youth to change the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451484540
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	08/01/2014
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Rufus Burrow Jr. is Indiana Professor of Christian Thought and professor of theological social ethics at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has written extensively on King for more than twenty years in books published by Westminster / John Knox Press, Chalice Press, and University of Notre Dame Press.

Table of Contents

Foreward: Beyond Emmett till The Hope of a New Generation Michael G. Long ix

Preface xv

Acknowledgements xxxv

Introduction 1

1 Montgomery: "Just to See Empty Bus, after Empty Bus Go By …" 17

2 Sitting-In and Taking a Ride for Freedom 55

3 Birmingham and the Children's Crusade 97

4 Mississippi: Made to Disappear 149

5 Selma: "What We Talk about Has Also to Do with the Children" 217

6 Who Will Carry the Freedom Struggle Forward? 271

Index 319