Vincent Harding was an associate of the late Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King and now serves as Professor of Religion and Social
Transformation at Illiff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He
has written numerous books, including Martin Luther King: The
Inconvenient Hero.
Before Illiff, Vincent Harding taught at Pendle Hill Study Center,
University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Spelman College.
Among his publications are The Other American Revolution; There Is a
River, Vol. 1; Hope and History; Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient
Hero,and We Changed the World (with R. Kelly and E. Lewis). Dr.
Harding has had a long history of involvement in domestic and
international movements for peace and justice, including the southern
Black freedom struggle. He was the first director of the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Memorial Center in Atlanta and served as director and
chairperson of The Institute of the Black World. He was senior
academic consultant to the award-winning PBS television series, Eyes
on the Prize.
He currently serves as co-chairperson of the Veterans of
Hope Project: A Center for the Study of Religion and Democratic
Renewal at Iliff, and as Vice President of Institutional
Transformation.
Books by Vincent Harding
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in AMERICAN (AMERI)ca
- We Changed the World: African Americans, 1945-1970 (The Young
Oxford History of African Americans, V. 9)
- Wade in the Water: The Wisdom of the Spirituals
- African-American Christianity: Essays in History
- Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero
- Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement
- There Is a River
- We Must Keep Going: Martin Luther King and the Future of America
- A Certain Magnificence: Lyman Beecher and the Transformation of
American Protestantism, 1775-1863 (Chicago Studies in the History of
American Religi)
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