#the sword and the shield: the revolutionary lives of malcolm x and martin luther king jr. (book)

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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.

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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)

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City Lights Bookstore’s Antiracist Reading List | UPDATED

Human creativity is integral to revolutionary resistance—the urgent plea, the silenced cry, the righteous rage. It is imperative that we educate and illuminate ourselves to deepen our commitment to justice and equity for Black people and all people of color, and to pave the way for radical systemic change.

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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Til to Trayvon Martin Edited by Philip Cushway and Michael Warr 9780393352733        Norton    Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Mumia Abu-Jamal  9780872867383       City Lights  Invisible Man Ralph Ellison  9780679732761       Vintage A Black Women's History of the United States Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross   9780807033555  Beacon         W.E.B. Dubois' Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America   The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts     Edited by Britt Rusert and Whitney Battle-Baptiste  9781616897062        Princeton Architectural Press Race Man: Selected Works 1960-2015 Julian Bond Edited by Michael G. Long  9780872867949 City Lights       Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot  Mikki Kendall   9780525560548       Viking The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration  Isabel Wilkerson  9780679763888       Random House

The Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Henry Dumas 9781566891493   Coffee House Everywhere You Don't Belong: A Novel Gabrielle Bump   9781616208790 Algonquin  The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues Angela Y. Davis Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley 9780872865808   City Lights   

No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements Hillary Moore and James Tracy Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley 9780872867963   City Lights The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander   9781620971932 The New Press Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds adrienne maree brown 9781849352604   AK  Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon   Translated from the French by Richard Philcox 9780802143006  Grove The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon Translated from the French by Richard Philcox Commentary by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha 9780802141323  Grove Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine 9781555976903   Graywolf  How to Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi 9780525509288   One World The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 9780679744726 Random House No Name in the Street James Baldwin 9780307275929   Vintage How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide Crystal Marie Fleming   9780807039847 Beacon The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter 9780393339741   Norton       Heaven Is All Goodbyes: City Lights Pocket Poet Series No. 61 Tongo Eisen-Martin 9780872867451 City Lights Afropessimism Frank WIlderson III 9781631496141     Liveright If They Come in the Morning . . . : Voices of Resistance Edited by Angela Y. Davis  9781784787691       Verso So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Olua  9781580058827       Seal  Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Ruskin, the Man Behind the March on Washington Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long  9780872867659       City Lights  We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide  Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden  Foreword by Nic Stone 9781547602520       Bloomsbury Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You - A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning  Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi 9780316453691       Little, Brown Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice  Mahogany L. Browne with Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood Illustrated by Theodore Taylor III Foreword by Jason Reynolds 9781250311207        Roaring Brook  Betty Before X Ilyasah Shabazz with Renée Watson  9780374306106       FSG Clifford's Blues John A. Williams  9781566890809       Coffee House  Native Son RIchard Wright  9780061148507  Harper Perennial Training School for Negro Girls Camille Acker  9781936932375       Feminist Press They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays Hanif Abdurraqib  9781937512651       Two Dollar Radio Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption  Bryan Stevenson  9780812984965       One World    The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations  Toni Morrison  9780525562795       Vintage Oreo Fran Ross  9780811223225       New Directions Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches  Audre Lorde  Foreword by Cheryl Clarke 9781580911863        Crossing Press Ghost Boys Jewell Parker Rhodes  9780316262262       Little, Brown Monument: Poems New and Selected  Natasha Trethewey  9780358118237  Mariner  The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Peniel E. Joseph 9781541617865 Basic Dear White People Justin Simien Illustrated by Ian O’Phelan 97814769809 37 Ink Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas Edited by Sam Durant Preface by Bobby Seale Foreword by Danny Glover 9780847841899 Rizzoli Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers Stephan Shames and Bobby Seale 9781419722400 Harry N. Abrams Press In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition Fred Moten 9780816641000 University of Minnesota Press The Known World: A Novel Edward P. Jones 9780061159176 Amistad Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas John Keene 9780811225526 New Directions Beloved: A Novel Toni Morrison 9781400033416 Vintage The Bluest Eye: A Novel Toni Morrison 9780307278449 Vintage Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Toni Morrison Vintage 9780679745426 Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 9780684824772 Scribner Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Harriet E. Wilson Edited with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Richard J. Ellis 9780307477453 Vintage Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement Edited by Toni Morrison 9780061774010 Harper I’m Not Dying with You Tonight Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones Sourcebooks Fire 9781492678892 The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale 9781784782924 Verso The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership Harold Cruse 9781590171356 NYRB Classics How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society Manning Marable 9781608465118 Haymarket From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9781608465620 Haymarket Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780936756745 Semiotext(e) Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight 9781416590323 Simon & Schuster Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 Taylor Branch 9780671687427 Simon & Schuster Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 Taylor Branch 9780684848099 Simon & Schuster At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 Taylor Branch 9780684857138  Simon & Schuster A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story Elaine Brown 9780385471077 Anchor Angela Davis: An Autobiography Angela Y. Davis 9780717806676 International Publishers Co.   My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 9780140439182 Penguin  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition  Frederick Douglass and Angela Y. Davis 9780872865273 City Lights Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 W.E.B. Du Bois 9780684856575 Free Press

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UPDATED - January 2022 Service Schedule for UUFB

Please note the changes in our service schedule due to cancellations on January 2nd and 9th.

January 16 - Today we will take a look at an aspect of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as compared to that of Malcom X. In his book “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.,” Black power scholar Peniel Joseph explores the parallels between King and Malcom X and how this can inform our understanding of today’s Black Lives Matter movement. We will watch a video of an interview of Peniel broadcast in 2020.

January 23 - MOVED TO VIRTUAL FORMAT ON ZOOM. CHECK OUR FACEBOOK PAGE FOR THE LINK TO THIS PROGRAM ON SUNDAY AROUND 10AM. Our program today will continue our exploration of the crossroads of science and religion. Neil deGrasse Tyson was interviewed by Bill Moyers in 2014 on this topic, and today we will look at the first part of this interview, with the other two parts to follow in February and March. The Council will meet immediately following the service.

January 30 - This morning we will see a video service recorded on September 26, 2021 from the UU Congregation of Flint, MI. “Why Anti-Racism Efforts Fail” explores how Unitarian Universalists work around the world to fight racism, but our recent efforts have fallen flat. A UUA president resigned over it, careers have been broken, and congregations have been discarded over arguments about how to fight racism. It is one of the hottest topics in our denomination that everyone, and no one wants to talk about. Some people were so disgusted with our poor leadership on anti-racism efforts, that they have left us altogether. So the question naturally arises; how do we move from giving shaming, ineffective lectures, to providing truly life-altering experiences that can end racism?

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MLK vs. Malcolm X

           Annette Gordon-Reed wrote a piece for The New York Times, titled “Martin, Malcolm and the Fight for Equality”, discussing some of the points from Peniel E. Joseph’s dual biography “The Sword and The Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.” The main point that Gordon-Reed focused on was that although King and Malcolm started off with different ways of thinking about the issues with civil rights, they both would have the same outcome when it comes to their death by an assassin.  As someone who enjoys learning about psycology and philosophy, I like this piece because it emphasizes how someone’s upbringing can shape their belief system as they grow older.

           As for King, we have studied extensively his life and upbringing in class. We have learned that he was a son of a pastor of a fundamentalist black church where he later identified himself as a liberal Christian after going to college. He grew up in a family where love was to be at the center of their beliefs, and this carried into his teachings. He also identified mostly as a minister which by knowing this really helps in painting a picture of how King saw himself. These views bled into beliefs which Gordon-Reed describes King’s “dreams of a utopian ‘beloved community’ in which American society would become fully integrated racially.” King focused more on similarities than differences which helped bring people together rather than dividing people based off their beliefs.

           On the other hand, Malcolm saw racism as a sign that there should be separation from the whites based off how minorities have been treated. Gordon-Reed described Malcolm X as “more dangerous… and promoted a black nationalism that sought nothing from whites save for noninterference with blacks’ effort to build lives of dignity.” These were opposite views from one another. Malcolm X’s views started at an early age from his parents influencing him from their teachings which was from Marcus Garvey. Gordon-Reed explains that “Garvey’s Back to Africa movement as much about instilling racial pride and black self-determination as actually leading African-Americans back to the Mother Continent.” Malcolm X also had to go through the struggles of his father dying and losing his mother to mental illness. Malcolm X did not have the support system that King had with a loving family and the support of the black church. King came from a family and mindset that nonviolence is the answer where Malcolm X did not see it that way. These prominent icons in our history show how strong one’s beliefs can be and how they have the potential to change the world. It shows how family, upbringing, support system, and life circumstances can potentially affect how you view the world. I think that this article is fascinating and gets people thinking about other people’s circumstances and how knowing how someone was raised can affect who they are today. This is relevant today due to there being such a separation between people’s beliefs when it comes to politics and xenophobia.

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An excerpt from “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.,” by Peniel E. Joseph

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‘The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.,’ by Peniel E. Joseph: An Excerpt

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‘The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.,’ by Peniel E. Joseph: An Excerpt

Malcolm X inherited the legacy of his parents, Earl Little and Louise Norton Little, proud disciples of the legendary Jamaican organizer Marcus Garvey. from Pocket https://ift.tt/3dZe6gm via IFTTT

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