23 juin 2011
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Sam Hitchmough, « Missions of Patriotism: Joseph H. Jackson and Martin Luther King », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.9155
I.Introduction Joseph H. Jackson has been treated very negatively in history-writing. Most texts refer to him in passing as the “brilliantly conservative”, “autocratic” president of the National Baptist Convention, a figure opposed to the Civil Rights Movement or else a man with a personal grudge or a neurotic dislike of Martin Luther King. King’s deputy, Ralph Abernathy, speculates that it may have been a “certain amount of envy” that caused Jackson to ‘turn’ on the movement. The bitter feu...