This Worldwide Struggle

This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement examines a group of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even to other religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could transform American democracy.

Sarah Azaransky is Assistant Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. She is the author of The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith and the editor of Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands.

Introduction Part of This Worldwide Struggle
Chapter 1 Spiritual Recognition of Empire (1930s)
Chapter 2 Passing Through a Similar Transition (1930s)
Chapter 3 We Can Add to the World Justice (1940s)
Chapter 4 An Admixture of Tragedy and Triumph (1940s)
Chapter 5 Opposing Injustice, First of All in Ourselves (1940s and 1950s)
Chapter 6 Moral Leadership of the World (1950s)