This unique short-term Bible study combines an in-depth look at Scripture, American history, and the musical melodies and rhythms of African American spirituals! The six-session study provides biblical, social, and historical analyses of the spirituals: "Rock-a My Soul," "Go Down Moses," "Balm in Gilead," "Ain't Dat Good News?," "Every Time I Feel the Spirit," and "Plenty Good Room." Leaders use the teacher's guide for session format, discussion questions, and activities. An accompanying CD, included with the teacher's guide, features all six songs and makes listening and learning fun and interactive! Plenty Good Room is a powerful resource for small groups, Sunday schoools, choir groups, and any setting where persons seek to enrich their devotional and spiritual experience through God's Word and music.

Plenty Good Room Student: A Bible Study Based on African-American Spirituals

Politics & Social Sciences

Baldwin, Lewis V.

Social Sciences

ABINGDON PRESS *

Examines King's roots in Black popular culture and their role as the source of his power and vision.

There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King Jr.

Biographies & Memoirs

Fortress Press

To Make the Wounded Whole [Paperback] [Jan 05, 1992] Baldwin, Lewis V.

To Make the Wounded Whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Leaders & Notable People

Based on years of original research, Never to Leave Us Alone is the first book-length treatment of the prayer life of the famed religious and civil rights leader. Drawing on personal prayers that King recited as a seminarian and graduate student, preacher, pastor, and then civil rights leader, award-winning historian Lewis Baldwin explains how King turned to both private prayer and meditation for his own spiritual fulfillment, and to public prayer as part of his sermonic discourse, as an aspect of his pastoral care, and as a way of moving, inspiring, and reaffirming people in the context of a crusade for equal rights, social justice, and peace. In the end, Baldwin argues, King's prayer life and reflections offer important keys not only to King the man but also to our own cultivation of core human values. The book includes photographs.

Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Walker, Wyatt T.

There is no more detailed resource about the relationship between Martin King and Malcolm X. The depth of scholarship in this volume extends even to the extraordinary amount of information relegated to footnotes, themselves a gold mine of documentation for all readers interested in the interface between faith claims, politics, and social and cultural transformation.

Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin (History of African-American Religions)

Al-Hadid, Amiri Yasin

Historical

University Press of Florida

Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Jr., and South Africa

Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday is celebrated in over one hundred countries, yet his international influence has received little attention. That King devoted his life to the civil and human rights struggle in the United States is well known; less well known, however, is that his concern for social justice stretched well beyond the borders of this country. It was in fact King's ideal of the beloved community - an inclusive and interracial society epitomized by freedom and justice for all - that transformed his national insight into a global vision. And it was this global vision that inspired King, and the heirs of his legacy, to play a profound role in South Africa's liberation from apartheid. Meticulously drawing on fugitive archival material, private correspondence, interviews, sermons, public speeches, and published works, Vanderbilt's Lewis V. Baldwin carefully traces the relationship between King's life and thought and that of great South African leaders such as Chief Albert J. Luthuli, Steve Biko, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela, Allan Boesak, and Desmond Tutu. The author recounts King's responses to the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as his impact on anti-apartheid activists and movements in and outside South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s - including the conflict between King's legacy of nonviolence and the Black Consciousness Movement that swept through Africa as colonialism fell.

Religion & Spirituality

Pilgrim Pr

Showing how King's life and legacy played--and continue to play--a profound role in the liberation of South Africa from apartheid, this work draws on King's private letters and published works to connect his life and thought with that of South African leaders. A brilliant testament to the global influence of King.

This unique short-term Bible study combines an in-depth look at Scripture, American history, and the music and lyrics of six African American spirituals. The six-session study provides biblical, social, and historical analyses of the spirituals: 'Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit," "This Lonesome Valley," "Bow Down on Your Knees," "Plenty Good Room," “Ain't Dat Good News," and "Were You There?" Marilyn E. Thornton wrote all-new lessons appropriate to the season. 
Leader helps can be found in the book providing discussion questions and activities. Plenty Good Room is a powerful resource for small groups, Sunday schools, choir groups, and any setting where persons seek to enrich their devotional and spiritual experience through God's Word and music.

Plenty Good Room: A Lenten Bible Study Based on African American Spirituals

Thornton, Marilyn E.

Christian Books & Bibles

What was Martin Luther King Jr. really like? In this groundbreaking volume, Lewis V. Baldwin answers this question by focusing on the man himself. Drawing on the testimonies of friends, family, and closest associates, this volume adds much-needed biographical background to the discussion, as Baldwin looks beyond all of the mythic, messianic, and iconic images to treat King in terms of his fundamental and vivid humanness. Special attention is devoted to King's personal insecurities and struggles, his humility and affinity to common people, his delight in pleasant and passionate conversation, his insatiable love for the precious but ordinary things of life, his robust appetite for artfully-prepared and delicious soul food, his enduring appreciation for music and dance, his cheerful and playful attitude and spirit, his abiding interest in games and sports, and his amazing gift of wit, humor, and laughter. King emerges here as an ordinary human being who enjoyed and celebrated life to the fullest, but was never bigger than life. Here we see the personal qualities of King—as a real, fleshly human being—and also as a man shaped by his social and cultural experiences and locations. This book reclaims the man behind the mythology.

Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr.

History

World

Martin Luther King Jr. said and wrote as much or more about the meaning, nature, and power of truth as any other prominent figure in the 1950s and '60s. King was not only vastly influential as an advocate for and defender of truth; he also did more than anyone in his time to organize truth into a movement for the liberation, uplift, and empowerment of humanity, efforts that ultimately resulted in the loss of his life. Drawing on King's published and unpublished sermons, speeches, and writings, The Arc of Truth explores King's lifelong pilgrimage in pursuit of truth. 
Lewis Baldwin explores King's quest for truth from his inquisitive childhood to the influence of family and church, to Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, Boston University, and other academic institutions in the Northeast. Continuing on, the book follows King's sense that he was involved in experiments of truth within the context of the struggle to liberate and empower humanity, to his understanding of the civil rights movement as unfolding truth, to his persistent challenge to America around its need to engage in a serious reckoning with truth regarding its history and heritage. Baldwin investigates King's determination to speak truth to power, and his untiring efforts to actualize what he envisioned as the truthful ends of the beloved community through the truthful means of nonviolent direct action. King believed, taught, and demonstrated by example that truth derives from a revolution in the heart, mind, and soul before it can be translated into institutions and structures that guarantee freedom, justice, human dignity, equality of opportunity, and peace. 
Ultimately, King's significance for humanity cannot be considered only his contributions as a preacher, pastor, civil rights leader, and world figure--he was and remains equally impactful as a theologian, philosopher, and ethicist whose life and thought evince an enduring search for and commitment to truth.

The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Plenty Good Room Student: A Bible Study Based on African-American Spirituals

There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King Jr.

To Make the Wounded Whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin (History of African-American Religions)

Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Jr., and South Africa

Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Jr., and South Africa

Plenty Good Room: A Lenten Bible Study Based on African American Spirituals

Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.