King as disturber of the peace - Vincent Gordon Harding (1987) - The substitution of the advocate's meaningful struggle for an iconic representation

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Vincent Gordon Harding, Martin Luther King, King as disturber of the peace

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"King as Disturber of the Peace" is an essay written by Vincent Gordon Harding, exploring the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In this essay, Harding presents an alternative perspective on King's role in society, challenging the conventional image of King as a passive and peaceful figure. Instead, Harding argues that King's actions and ideas were disruptive to the established social order, and that he actively sought to disturb the status quo in pursuit of justice and equality.

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Media Manipulation and the Controversial Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.: From Realism to Iconization
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[...] King as disturber of the peace - Vincent Gordon Harding (1987) - The substitution of the advocate's meaningful struggle for an iconic representation Introduction: As a man convinced that "the whole study of the Black experience . ought to be essentially defined by Black people", Vincent Gordon Harding is among the few iconic African American nonviolent activists to have supported and closely worked with Martin Luther King, met in 1958, along his long fight for the African Americans' Civil Rights, among which freedom and equality, paying a contribution to the draft of the antiwar sermon "Beyond Vietnam" in 1967 and pursuing King's Dream far beyond the sixties. [...]

[...] By quoting Carl Wendel Hins' words, Harding explicitly rejects the instrumentalization of Martin Luther King's image used to build and "sharpen a convenient hero". Harding there goes from realistic words to holy terms underlining the sanctuarisation of the King's words and therefore the King himself. He accuses then many persons, "artists, family and millions of back people" therefore the America, to have created a "tailor-made" hero. With a great use of religious connotations through the words "praise", "build monuments" "glory" and "say hosannas", he hereby gives some fervent picture, describing devoted crowds, committed to celebrate and "to fashion" dead man". [...]

[...] With the equality of tone of his predecessor, he delivers a more political message, exacerbated by the apparent peaceful background of the seventies and early eighties. Trying hard to resuscitate King's spirit, he, nevertheless, takes distance from the universal messages of Martin Luther to go deeper into America's real positions. With this examination, King's friend describes the many sociological and psychological mechanism which have defeated the soul of the African Americans' rights in the United States. As an equal charismatic Civil Rights defender, Harding has taken the lead of King's struggles. [...]

[...] Chadwick, Apostle of the Americans: Martin Luther King's, Jr's use of the apostle Paul during the Civil Rights Movement, April - LUTHER KING Martin Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, Beacon Press; Reprint edition (November 2011), ISBN-10: 0807001708. [...]

[...] Recalling next as a fervent oratoring discipline expert «I am, you are, a citizen of a country that does not yet exist", Handing has fulfilled his companion's visions and proved to have been King's memory's most hopeful and best transmission into this exotic post-modern world. Resources: - BURROW Rufus Jr, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance, McFarland ISBN pages. - CARBY and EDWARDS, "Vincent Harding," in Visions of History, ed. Abelove et al - HARDING GORDON Vincent, Beyond Amnesia: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Future of America, The Journal of American History, September 1987, Vol No (Sep. 1987), pp. 468-476. -HARPER J. [...]

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