#peniel e joseph

[theredqueenandthebloodwyrm]

From The Sword and the Shield (The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.) by Peniel E. Joseph.

Chapter Two, The Radical Citizenship of Martin Luther King, Pages 66-67.

Bayard Rustin's appearance in Montgomery less than a month after the bombing helped King make sense of the incomprehensible.

A brilliant organizer, pacifist, and raconteur, Rustin had helped to mobilize some of the most effective interracial anti-racist movements of the 1940s, but his activism was overshadowed by a complicated personal history that included past ties to communists and a stint in jail as a conscientious objector. Rustin's political ambitions were also thwarted by his homosexuality...Rustin would emerge in this pivotal moment as one of King's closest advisors.

[deadpresidents]

It's always a good day to add a brand-new book about Lyndon Johnson to the LBJ section of my personal library -- a section which might eventually just require building a new wing to my home in order to fit my LBJ collection!

Thanks to the wonderful folks at the Cambridge University Press for sending me an advance copy of LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson (BOOK | KINDLE). LBJ's America is a collection of essays from many prominent historians about President Johnson, his life, his times, and the legacy he left behind. The essays featured in the book were selected and edited by historians Mark Atwood Lawrence, the current director of the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas in Austin, and Mark K. Updegrove, who was director of the LBJ Library from 2009 to 2017 and has been President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation since 2017. It would be difficult to find two contemporary historians better equipped to help tell Lyndon Johnson's story today.

I just received my copy of LBJ's America late this afternoon, but you can be sure that I've already jumped into the book without hesitation. And since the book features essays by an impressive lineup of historians including Peniel E. Joseph, Julian Zelizer, Joshua Zeitz, Nicole Hemmer, Melody Barnes, and Fredrik Logevall -- among others -- each chapter of LBJ's America is an excellent window into President Johnson and the triumphs and failures of his Administration as he actively sought to make the most of his unexpected opportunity to be the most powerful person in the world and actually accomplish goals which truly changed people's lives. After all, as LBJ once said when asked why he was trying to achieve things that were seemingly impossible politically, "What the hell is the Presidency for?".

I'm not completely finished reading the book yet, but even after just a few hours of progress, I can strongly recommend LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson (BOOK | KINDLE). Pre-order it now wherever you buy books and you can get your copy of LBJ's America as soon as it is released on October 19th!

[demondmayhew016]

Malcolm X, MLK, and the Call for a Cultural Revolution - AAIHS

#Black Conscious 🌍❤️🖤💚✊✨

[antonio-velardo]

Antonio Velardo shares: Why We Have to Reckon With the Real Malcolm X by Peniel E. Joseph

By Peniel E. Joseph Malcolm X still looms over our current moment. But the version of the man that we meet now is much more human, relatable, problematic and inspirational, for all his flaws. Published: November 18, 2023 at 07:00AM from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/fi8kZtH via IFTTT

[hostor-infotech]

Opinion: This enduring crime continues to haunt America's efforts for racial justice

Editor’s Note: Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor of history. He is the author of “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.” The views…

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Opinion: This enduring crime continues to haunt America's efforts for racial justice

Editor’s Note: Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor of history. He is the author of “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.” The views…

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Opinion: How 'The 1619 Project' reveals democracy's only hope for the future

Editor’s Note: Peniel E. Joseph is Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor of history. He is the author of “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.” The views…

[nodynasty4us]

From the December 10, 2022 opinion piece by Peniel E. Joseph:

The GOP embrace of Walker represents an American tragedy. Walker’s behavior on the campaign trail included incoherent ramblings about movies and farm animals, nonsensical asides that went nowhere and dancing in front of overwhelmingly White audiences in bizarre scenes that recalled the minstrel shows of the Jim Crow era. The whiff of the Jim Crow era’s objectification of Black men as intellectually feeble but physically powerful grew stronger as Walker’s humiliating campaign continued to showcase the GOP’s failure to understand or connect with Black voters.

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For too many White voters who remain enthralled by Trump, MAGA and January 6, Walker represents the only form of racial “progress” they find acceptable – and that problem wasn’t defeated at the polls the way Walker the candidate was. For too many of these voters, only a Black man who knows his “place”— as a figurehead for a Republican Party openly pursuing a policy agenda of voter suppression, educational censorship and reproductive injustice — is worthy of the support of many parts of Georgia’s electorate

[haitilegends]

The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

Book by Peniel E. Joseph

Historian

[nickthebookworm]

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Currently listening:

Life has been very busy so I'm not getting to read as much as I want. It's been a while since I downloaded an audiobook, so I got a couple to keep me going.

I haven't heard of any of them before, I downloaded them because the titles seem interesting and they were available immediately.

Just started Stranger on the Bridge but it's very triggering, so I'm not sure I'll be able to finish it (which would be a shame).

[bigtickhk]

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.by Peniel E. Joseph https://amzn.to/2wYoZyi

[karagin22]

CNN proof that stupidity is learned

[anniekoh]

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)

The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement

Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’s politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.

Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power At The Local Level by Peniel E. Joseph (2009)

This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power’s impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, Mid-West and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new scholarship that is taking a second look at Black Power, connecting grassroots activism to national struggles for black self-determination and international African independence movements, and actively rewriting postwar African American history.

[padawan-historian]

MLK Day Resources

Decolonize your understanding of Dr. King’s teachings  and his legacy

Listen to this while reading Eye on the Prize -- Civil Rights Hymn

King’s philosophy of nonviolence: “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue… There is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, we must see the need of having nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men to rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.”

King on bootstrapism: “. . .when white Americans tell the Negro to “lift himself by his own bootstraps”, they don’t look over the legacy of slavery and segregation. I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own boot straps, but it’s a cruel just to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”

King’s rebuttal that nonviolence is passive: “Nonviolent resistance … avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him. At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love. The nonviolent resister would contend that in the struggle for human dignity, the oppressed people of the world must not succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter or indulging in hate campaigns. To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.“

Video & Literary Resources on Dr. King and lessons influenced by his resistance work:

Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail - April 1963

Dr. King’s 1967 speech (video) - The Other America

Dr. King’s 1967 speech (video) - New Phase of Civil Rights

An Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’ || Maria Popova

Prof. Ibram X. Kendi: Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (video) || American Historical Association

Teaching the History of Racist Violence in the High School Classroom (video) || American Historical Association

THREE PRINCIPLES OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: THOREAU, GANDHI, AND KING || Nick Gier

A Rap on Race: Margaret Mead and James Baldwin’s Rare Conversation on Forgiveness and the Difference Between Guilt and Responsibility

Decolonized Books to Read:

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph (2020)

Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael Honey (2008)

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis (2019)

From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William Darity (2020)

[azspot]

One of the fascinating things about King’s life is when he evolves and speaks truth to power. He's still talking about nonviolence, but he's speaking in bold radical terms about the need to end militarism and materialism and racism. King is an anti-imperialist. He argues for ending the war in Vietnam and building the Beloved Community through a revolution of values that resists racism and white supremacy. And King starts to call people out. He calls out the president and he calls out the Congress. And he calls the United States the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. King is also an anti-capitalist. He pleads with the nation to undergo a revolution of values wherein the poverty he witnesses in, for example, Marks, Mississippi that moves him to tears, will leave the nation’s conscience so troubled that America will have no choice but to remake itself by ending poverty for good.

Peniel E. Joseph