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- Title
The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel.
- Authors
Dorrien, Gary
- Abstract
Martin Luther King Jr. did not come from nowhere. He was steeped in the black social gospel of his mentors Benjamin E. Mays, Mordecai Johnson, J. Pius Barbour, and Howard Thurman, who were leaders of the black social gospel in its third generation. The black social gospel was originally a response to two terrible questions of the 1880s: What would a new abolitionism be today? How should a new abolitionism respond to the mania of racist lynching and the assaults on the rights of black Americans? King was steeped in the black social gospel tradition that paved the way to the civil rights movement and formulated its social justice theology.
- Subjects
DU Bois, W. E. B., 1868-1963; KING, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; ANTISLAVERY movements
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2020, Vol 33, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/kize.2020.33.1.89