„The Right Achieved and the Wrong Way Conquered”: J. H. Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Conflict over Civil Rights

The infamous conflict between Joseph Harrison Jackson, longtime president of the National Baptist Convention, Inc. (NBC), and Martin Luther King, Jr., has attracted considerable scholarly attention. For nearly a decade, the two Baptist clerics fought for control of the largest African American relig...

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Main Author: Best, Wallace D. 1960- (Author)
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Published: Cambridge University Press [2006]
In: Religion and American culture
Year: 2006, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 195-226
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