Cone’s Black liberation theology frames Civil Rights era primary texts for students

Evidence

Our discussion of these nineteenth-century texts and contexts provides a segueway to anti-racist conversations in theology and literature during the Civil Rights era. Specifically, James Cone’s Black theology of liberation during this era provides the historical context for reading influential texts by Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Toni Morrison. Students read Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in which he critiques police brutality against African Americans as well as the reluctance of the White Church and White moderate allies in Alabama to support nonviolent movements against Jim Crow laws. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 491

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black theology emerges from Black Christian experience as a survival resource — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1056; Marginalized black communities can and should lead their own liberation

Broader Connections

• Black theology emerges from Black Christian experience as a survival resource #expands (0.72) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1056
• Marginalized black communities can and should lead their own liberation #expands (0.70)