MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Harding, Vincent, 1931-2014
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1968
Volume: 3 item(s); 9 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Merton speaks to Vincent Harding of a proposed retreat at Gethsemani with Martin Luther King, Jr. This did not come to pass before King was assassinated. Harding talks about meeting Merton at Gethsemani and about some of Merton's writings on Native Americans and the relation of the struggles of Native Americans and African Americans.
Biography
Vincent Harding and his wife Rosemarie Freeney Harding were leaders in the Southern Freedom Movement during the Civil Rights struggle of the 1950's and 1960's. He has written a number of books, including Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero, and served as a senior academic consultant to the highly-acclaimed Eyes on the Prize series on PBS. In 1997, he and Rosemarie Freeney Harding founded the Veterans of Hope project, which gathers the wisdom of elder pioneers in civil rights and social justice for future generations. Harding is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation at Illiff School of Theology in Denver.
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See one published letter from Merton to Harding in Witness to Freedom, p. 242-3; and also published in Signs of Hope, pp. 200-1.
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