ABSTRACT
This chapter reconciles beloved community. Without reconciliation, there can be no unity, there can be no beloved community. There is no better time than present to talk about reconciliation and no better place to begin than with the vision of the beloved community. In the beloved community the people find compassion for others and justice for all. In the beloved community, people find a community at peace with itself, a community that must come together for the common good. During the 1950s and 1960s, America could not ignore the clarion call for racial reconciliation. The chapter immerses itself in the philosophy and learns at an early age that America was deeply divided over race. It also learned that America was profoundly ready for a lasting peace, a bridge of reconciliation between the two worlds, one black and the other white. There was a spirit of excitement, a spirit of love for America's promise. Those who came to Mississippi cared deeply for America, and no force could turn them away.
