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Against the hounds of hell : a life of Howard Thurman / Peter Eisenstadt.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: "With our Negro guests" -- Deep river: a Daytona boyhood -- "My people need me": high school years -- "The personification of the Morehouse ideal" -- "The sound of rushing water": Rochester Theological Seminary -- A new prophet in Oberlin -- "A technique of survival for the underprilileged": a return to Atlanta -- In Black Athens: Howard University -- Delivering the message of nonviolence: lessons from India -- Footsteps of a war, footprints of a dream -- In the queen of cities: building community in San Francisco -- Against the hounds of hell -- Disciplines and resources: at Boston University -- "The stillness of absolute motion": the wider ministry -- Common ground? Coming aground?: "the cataclysms of the Civil Rights revolution" -- With head and heart.
Summary, etc.:	"A biography of the American theologian and educator Howard Thurman. Thurman was a prominent African American civil rights leader who influenced many in his work for social justice, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr"-- Provided by publisher.