Social Activism Loses ‘Peaceful Warrior’ Vincent Harding - Higher Education

Social Activism Loses ‘Peaceful Warrior’ Vincent Harding - Higher Education: He was a renaissance man. A productive scholar, who wrote about the Civil Rights Movement, not as a distant outsider but as one who was intimately involved in the day-to-day struggles of Blacks in the American South.

By most accounts, Dr. Vincent Harding was prolific, penning classic texts such as There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America and Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero even as he held down teaching positions at institutions like Spelman, the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore and Temple University.

But the classroom was his second calling.