Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Strength to Love

 
 
 
 
In Martin Luther King Jr.'s Strength to love, the Civil Rights leader offers a number of his sermons on everything from communism and Christianity to Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, whose own nonconformity and nonviolent civil disobedience influenced King's own methods. One of the main themes of this work is that racial prejudice and its injustices are often perpetuated or reinforced through social institutions like the criminal justice system or even the Catholic Church, which King makes culpable here in promoting slavery and segregation. Support by the Christian church for racism throughout history is one of the "shameful tragedies" revealed by history in King's (1981) view. This analysis will review King's book and a number of its main ideas and themes. A conclusion will address how the book might be used to help teach high school social studies students about civil rights history.

In King's (1981) Strength of Love, the overall message that comes across is that the Civil Rights leader strongly believes in a higher and ben


     
 
 
 
    

 

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