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Gary S. Selby

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Gary Selby is professor of ministerial formation at Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Milligan College, and previously served as the Carl P. Miller Chair of Communication at Pepperdine University. The author of Martin Luther King and the Rhetoric of Freedom: The Exodus in America’s Struggle for Civil Rights (2008), he has published studies on Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph David Abernathy, as well as on early Christian rhetoric and religion and the public sphere.

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