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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.
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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1968/01/01 |
HLS to Merton |
It is now shortly after 2 a.m. on the first day of this strange new year, and I am moved to write |
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1968/01/16 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Letters as good as the one you wrote New Year's night are hard to reply to: much easier just |
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1969/04/16? |
TLS[x] from Ferry, W. H. |
After these admiring months or maybe years, a pleasure to meet you. The admiration has been directed |
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[received date by Harding is April 16, 1969, but no send date recorded / enclosed with a November 1968 photograph of Merton and the Dalai Lama]
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