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Toward the beloved community
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...
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