Becoming Americas Problem Child

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The history of social protest such as the civil rights movement displays the manner in which religious commitment and sociopolitical vision have entailed productive synergy. With respect to representatives of this synergy embodied, many readers are familiar with figures such as Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Barbara Jordan, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. However, there is another who has not received the same level of public and academic attention, yet one whose energy and effort played a role in the advancement of African Americans in particular and American society in general - Pauli Murray. This volume is the first book to map the contours of Pauli Murray's religious life and theological thought. It provides simply the rough outline of her development as a deeply religious person and the ways in which this development ultimately required a certain type of surrender of her life to the will of God, as she understood it.