Moral Man and Immoral Society: Rediscovering Reinhold Niebuhr

Dialogue with James Baldwin

Closing ceremonies in New York for four girls killed in Birmingham bombing. (r to l) Author James Baldwin; James Farmer, unidentified man, and Socialist leader Norman Thomas.

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Shortly after the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham is bombed, Niebuhr appears with author James Baldwin on television. Hosted by Dr. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., the two great thinkers discuss the meaning of the Birmingham tragedy and the steps necessary to achieve racial justice.

Photo caption: Closing ceremonies in New York for four girls killed in Birmingham bombing (r to l) author James Baldwin; James Farmer, unidentified man, and Socialist leader Norman Thomas.