Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Booker T. Washington and the Adaptive Person

The Adaptive Person

Biographical Sketch

Conception of Human Fulfillment

The Just Society

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Strenuous Person

The Strenuous Person

Biographical Sketch

Conception of Human Fulfillment

The Just Society

Malcolm X and the Defiant Person

The Defiant Person

Biographical Sketch

Conception of Human Fulfillment

The Just Society

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Integrative Person

The Integrative Person

Biographical Sketch

Conception of Human Fulfillment

The Just Society

America's Public Moralists: Testing Their Visions

Notes

Index

About the Author

Robert M. Franklin is Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics at Emory University. He has also served at the University of Chicago, Harvard Divinity School, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, and the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, as well as at the Ford Foundation. His prior books from Fortress Press include Liberating Visions: Human Fulfillment and Social Justice in African-American Thought (1990, 0-8006-2392-4) and Another Day's Journey: Black Churches Confronting the American Crisis (1997, 0-8006-3096-3). A frequent commentator on public radio's "All Things Considered" he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.