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MANHATTAN COLLEGE PROFESSOR EMERITUS JOHN ANSBRO WRITES BOOK THAT EXAMINES THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHIES OF EIGHT BLACK LEADERS

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Dr. John Ansbro, professor emeritus of philosophy at Manhattan College, is the author of The Credos of Eight Black Leaders: Converting Obstacles into Opportunities. Released in 2004 by University Press of America, The Credos of Eight Black Leaders is Dr. Ansbro’s latest book to dissect social philosophies and civil rights issues.

In The Credos of Eight Black Leaders, Dr. Ansbro presents the social philosophies of leaders Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmund Tutu in the form of credos. The book is based on an analysis of 21,000 pages of primary sources and numerous biographies, and it identifies more than 500 examples of how these leaders discerned benefits in their negative experiences for their organizations and themselves.

In his evaluation of Ansbro’s book, Dean Lawrence Carter of Morehouse College said, “Dr. John Ansbro has written in the first person the most informative and inspiring exposition of the social philosophies of the principal African-American and African activists of the last 200 years … He has rendered a tremendous service to African-Americans …”

Dr. Ansbro taught philosophy at Manhattan College for more than 35 years, where he held several roles during his tenure, including curriculum guidance supervisor of the faculty, chairman of the interdisciplinary arts program, director of research in the peace studies program, chairman of the department of philosophy and founder and president of the Manhattan College Council on World Hunger. Now a full-time writer, he received his doctorate from Fordham University and also taught Dr. Martin Luther King’s nonviolence at the philosophical resources for contemporary problems program at Fordham’s graduate school. The recipient of several research grants, Dr. Ansbro is the author of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolent Strategies and Tactics for Social Change and has written numerous articles for philosophical, educational and civil rights journals in the United States, Europe and Asia.

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