Letters to Martin
eBook - ePub

Letters to Martin

Meditations on Democracy in Black America

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Letters to Martin

Meditations on Democracy in Black America

About this book

Letters to Martin contains twelve meditations on contemporary history and political struggles for our oxygen-deprived society. Evoking Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," these meditations, written in the form of letters to King, speak specifically to the many public issues we presently confront in the United States—economic inequality, freedom of assembly, police brutality, ongoing social class conflicts, and geopolitics. Award-winning author Randal Maurice Jelks invites readers to reflect on US history by centering on questions of democracy that we must grapple with as a society. Hearkening to the era when James Baldwin, Dorothy Day, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Richard Wright used their writing to address the internal and external conflicts that the United States faced, this book is a contemporary revival of a literary tradition of meditative social analysis. These meditations on democracy provide spiritual oxygen to help readers endure the struggles of rebranding, rebuilding, and reforming our democratic institutions so that we can all breathe. 
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. 1 Network of Mutuality
  8. 2 The Highest Ethical Ideal
  9. 3 A Revolution of Values
  10. 4 Like a King
  11. 5 Drum Major Instinct
  12. 6 The Strength to Love
  13. 7 We as a People
  14. 8 The World House
  15. 9 All Labor Has Dignity
  16. 10 Growing Up King
  17. 11 The Content of Our Character
  18. 12 A Stone of Hope
  19. Epilogue
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Notes