I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Future of Multicultural America.I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Future of Multicultural America. Edited by James Kenneth Echols (Fortress, $15). E. notes that King's famous speech--the most famous sermon in modern American history--called all Americans to fully embrace and include racial and ethnic equality as a key aspect of the American dream. The seven essays in this book, by James A. Forbes The Rev. Dr. James Alexander Forbes, Jr. (born 1935), is the Distinguished Senior Minister Emeritus of The Riverside Church, an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ) church on the border of the Morningside Heights and Harlem neighborhoods on the Upper Jr., Robert M. Franklin, Justo L. Gonzalez, Dwight N. Hopkins, Peter J. Paris, Linda E. Thomas, and Emilie M. Townes, comprised the Hein Fry Lecture Series in the ELCA ELCA Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ELCA European Landscape Contractors Association ELCA Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty ELCA English Language Communicational Association (Japan) ELCA Eagle's Landing Christian Academy in 2003. King's agenda is here expanded from issues involving people of African and European descent to the multicultural challenge and opportunity of the twenty-first century. Essayists The following is an abbreviated list of essayists, arranged alphabetically by last name (years of birth and death, if applicable, and country of birth, are noted in parentheses). Note: An individual's country of birth is not always indicative of his or her nationality. examine King's upbringing and formative influences, the speech itself, the twenty-first-century importance of King's dream, and the divine call for all God's people to participate in the ongoing struggle for equality and justice. RWK RWK Rework RWK Race War Kingdoms (online game) |
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