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  1. Feb 21, 2019 · Dr. John M. Perkins is one of the last living figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Born into poverty as the son of a sharecropper, Dr. Perkins grew up on a Mississippi plantation under extreme racism. He lost his teenage brother to murder, was beaten multiple times, and was imprisoned.

  2. John Perkins (born January 28, 1945) is an American author. His best known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), in which Perkins describes playing a role in a process of economic colonization of Third World countries on behalf of what he portrays as a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States government.

  3. Feb 11, 2022 · But Perkins had not yet accepted the gospel and come to Jesus. It wasn’t until 1957 that Perkins went to a Sunday school class with his son and heard and accepted the truth that he was...

  4. Fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, John M. Perkins sat down with Charles Morris to tell his own story of racial and biblical reconciliation.

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  5. Jan 30, 2024 · This is the first episode of Planet Local Voices – an interview series by Local Futures – featuring thinkers, writers, movement-builders and activists from a...

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  6. Aug 4, 2022 · A farewell tour it may be, but Perkins has been in motion as long as he’s been in ministry, moving mostly between his native Mississippi to California and back, always focused on his goals of...

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  8. Apr 2, 2018 · Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra reports on author and community developer John Perkins’s last career. After 87 years and 8 careers, author and community developer John Perkins has narrowed his final focus to one cause.