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Harding, Vincent

LC control no.n 80097511
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Personal name headingHarding, Vincent
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Associated placeAtlanta (Ga.)
LocatedDenver (Colo.)
Birth date1931-07-25
Death date2014-05-19
Place of birthNew York (N.Y.)
Place of deathPhiladelphia (Pa.)
Field of activityHistoriography Civil rights movements Race relations
AffiliationMartin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
Iliff School of Theology
Institute of the Black World
Veterans of Hope Project
Profession or occupationHistorians Civil rights workers African American authors
Found inHis Must walls divide? 1965.
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 7/25/31)
NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for His Interview, 1968 Aug. 16 (HARDING, Vincent (1931- ); Professor. Director, Martin Luther King Memorial Center, Atlanta, Georgia)
Washington post WWW site, May 23, 2014 (Vincent Harding; Vincent Gordon Harding was born July 25, 1931, in New York City; died May 19 [2014] in Philadelphia, at 82; faculty member for more than 30 years at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, beginning 1981; first director of what was then the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center and then led the Institute of the Black World, both in Atlanta; historian who was an influential behind-the-scenes figure during the civil rights movement; after moving to Denver, Dr. Harding helped establish the Veterans of Hope Project, a multidisciplinary effort combining historical, religious and cultural studies with political action)
Associated languageeng