Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Harding, Vincent
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Harding, Vincent, 1931-2014
Other form(s) of name
- Vincent Harding
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1931-2014
History
Vincent Harding and his wife Rosemarie Freeney Harding were leaders in the Southern Freedom Movement during the Civil Rights struggle of the 1950's and 1960's. He has written a number of books, including «Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero», and served as a senior academic consultant to the highly-acclaimed Eyes on the Prize series on PBS. In 1997, he and Rosemarie Freeney Harding founded the Veterans of Hope project, which gathers the wisdom of elder pioneers in civil rights and social justice for future generations. Harding is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation at Illiff School of Theology in Denver.