| Contents |
Introduction : the elders gather -- Liberating the idea of freedom : Ain't ya free yet, why ain't ya gone free? -- Law and liberation : a love story? : Barbara Jordon and Thurgood Marshall in conversation -- A liberated and luminous darkness : spirituality of struggle : Rosa Parks and Howard Thurman in conversation -- A revolutionary liberation : freedom and wholeness : Malcolm X and Harriet Tubman in conversation -- Liberated bodies, liberated lives : embodying freedom : Audre Lorde, Fannie Lou Hamer, and George Washington Carver in conversation -- Killing me, killing you, killing us! : violence and liberation : Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Stanley Tookie Williams, and Huey P. Newton in conversation -- Liberation and the art of creative imagination : prophetic expression : Tupac Shakur, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks in conversation -- Beyond mountaintops : toward a long-awaited future : Martin Luther King Jr., Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. DuBois, and Shirley Chisholm in conversation -- A summing up : entanglements and adjournments. |
