Sarah Azaransky's "This Worldwide Struggle," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement by Sarah Azaransky.

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A crackerjack production team is necessary for This Worldwide Struggle, a movie about a group of black American Christians who looked abroad, even in other religious traditions, for ideas and resources to transform American democracy.

The location manager needs to have extensive contacts in South Asia to chart Howard and Sue Bailey Thurman’s five-month journey in 1935-1936 through what is now Sri Lanka, Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and throughout India, when they met many activists and intellectuals, including Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi. After meeting with the Thurmans, Gandhi proclaimed it may be through black Americans “that the unadulterated message of non-violence will be delivered to the world.”

A skilled lighting team is necessary to capture William Stuart Nelson’s awe of an Indian dawn. Nelson and his wife Blanche spent a year in India, working with....[read on]

Learn more about This Worldwide Struggle at the Oxford University Press website.

My Book, The Movie: This Worldwide Struggle.

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