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Luker, Ralph Edlin was born on March 1, 1940 in Louisville. Son of Maurice Sylvester and Beatrice (Edlin) Luker.
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In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the period between Emancipation and the civil rights movement. As organizations created by the heirs of antislavery sentiment foundered in the mid-1890s, Ralph Luker argues, a new generation of black and white reformers--many of them representatives of American social Christianity--explored a variety of solutions to the problem of racial conflict. Some of them helped to organize the Federal Council of Churches in 1909, while others returned to abolitionist and home missionary strategies in organizing the NAACP in 1910 and the National Urban League in 1911. A half century later, such organizations formed the institutional core of America's civil rights movement. Luker also shows that the black prophets of social Christianity who espoused theological personalism created an influential tradition that eventually produced Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement is an essential reference work for students and scholars of American history and the civil rights movement. It provides over three hundred concise descriptions of the important people, organizations, events, and the multitude of executive orders, legislative acts, and judicial decisions that played crucial roles in the historic transformation of American society after World War II. Luker includes a historical overview that offers an interpretation of the movement. He also examines the role of women in this movement and the role of four generations of black and white leaders in the cause of racial justice. Includes a chronology of the milestones of the movement and a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
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The fiftieth anniversary of many major milestones in what is commonly called the African-American Civil Rights Movement was celebrated in 2013. Fifty years removed from the Birmingham campaign, the assassination of Medgar Evers, and the March on Washington and it is clear that the sacrifices borne by those generations in that decade were not in vain. Monuments, museums, and exhibitions across the world honor the men and women of the Movement and testify to their immeasurable role in redefining the United States. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement is a guide to the history of the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. The history of this period is covered in a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, significant legal cases, local struggles, forgotten heroes, and prominent women in the Movement. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Civil Rights Movement.
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Luker, Ralph Edlin was born on March 1, 1940 in Louisville. Son of Maurice Sylvester and Beatrice (Edlin) Luker.
Bachelor, Duke University, 1962. Bachelor's Degree, Drew University, 1966. Master of Arts, University North Carolina, 1969.
Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1973.
Assistant professor of history Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1972-1979. Executive director Delaware Humanities Forum, Wilmington, 1980-1982. Associate editor, director Martin Luther King Papers Project, Atlanta, 1986-1991.
Associate professor history Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1991-1994. Adjunct professor history Morehouse College, Atlanta, 1996-1998. Editor Vernon Johns Papers Project, since 1998.
Visiting professor religion Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, 1979-1980, 83-84, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1985-1986. Research associate Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, Providence, 1984. Consultant Boston University, 1992, Martin Luther King Papers Project, Stanford, California, 1995, Project on Theology and Community, Loyola College, Maryland, 1997-1999, 2003.
Founder Cliopatria.
(In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, origin...)
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(The Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement is...)
( The fiftieth anniversary of many major milestones in wh...)
Member community advisory board Station WHYY, public radio/television, Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia, 1980-1986. Board directors Station WQLN, public radio/television, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1975-1979. Member American History Association, American Studies Association (Constance Rourke prize committee 1984-1986), Organisation of America Historians, Southern History Association (membership committee 1980-1982, 91), St. George Tucker Society, History News Svc.
(steering com.1997-), Honorary Order Kentucky Colonels, History Society.
Married Jean Holmes Crawford, May 27, 1966. Children: Anne Crawford, Amanda Elizabeth.
