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The Making of Black Revolutionaries – Illustrated Edition: The Making of Black Revolutionaries

Autor James Forman, Julian Bond
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1997
This eloquent and provocative autobiography, originally published in 1972, records a day by day, sometimes hour by hour, compassionate account of the events that took place in the streets, meetings, churches, jails, and in people's hearts and minds in the 1960s civil rights movement.During the 1960s James Forman served as Executive Secretary and Director of International Affairs of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He is now Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., and President of the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee. He is the author of six other books.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295976594
ISBN-10: 0295976594
Pagini: 608
Dimensiuni: 197 x 245 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.87 kg
Ediția:ILLUSTRATED.
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
Seria The Making of Black Revolutionaries


Cuprins

Foreword by Julian Bond; Preface; Letter to My Sisters and BrothersBook One: A Constant Struggle1. Driven Insane; 2. Childhood and Coca-Cola; 3. Roots of the Black Manifesto; 4. Ready to Kill; 5. A Family Fight; 6. Dreams and a .38 Cold; 7. Corrupt Black Preachers; 8. You're in the Army Now; 9. Okinawa - A Bad Dream; 10. Feeling Like a New Car; 11. God is Dead: A Question of Power; 12. Keep Your Pride; 13. Time For Action; 14. The great White Rat; 15. Georgia Mae Hard Times; 16. Forgetting the People; 17. Diary of Fayette; 18. Lucretia Collins: "The Spirit of Nashville"; 19. Violence or Nonviolence; 20. The Klan and a Frame-up; 21. The Kissing Case; 22. Robert Williams Versus Roy Wilkins; 23. No Room at the Swimming Pool; 24. Eruption in Newtown; 25. Moment of Death; 26. Strong Black Women; 27. Inside the Monroe Jail; 28. Justice, Monroe StyleBook Two: A Band of Sisters and Brothers, in a Circle of Trust29. Miss Ella Baker; 30. McComb, Mississippi; 31. The Circle Begins; 32. Inside a Cubicle; 33. Albany, Georgia; 34. Attack the Power Center; 35. Broke, Busted, But Not Disgusted; 36. Terror in the Delta; 37. Ulcers and Carnegie Hall; 38. Noes for the Greenwood Jail; 39. Freedom Walk; 40. Betrayal in Birmingham; 41. Selma: Diary of a Freedom Fighter; 42. Machine Guns in Danville; 43. The March on Washington; 44. Americus, Georgia; 45. Selma Freedom Day; 46. The Freedom Vote; 47. The "Big Five" and SNCC; 48. Inside the Mississippi Summer Project; 49. The 1964 Democratic Convention; 50. Profiles in Treachery; 51. African Interlude; 52. Internal Disorder; 53. Power for Black People; 54. Kingston Springs; 55. Black Power Strikes; 56. Dynamite in Philadelphia; 57. The Bureau of Internal Revenue Attacks; 58. Rock Bottom; 59. The Indivisible Struggle; 60. The Arab-Israeli Dispute; 61. Blacks Assume Leadership; 62. The Organization of African Unity; 63. Literation Will Come from a Black Thing; 64. The Black Panther Party; 65. The Black ManifestoPostscript

Recenzii

"James Forman's The Making of Black Revolutionaries is a classic, a personal, no holds barred inside look at the civil rights movement. Written by an insider, it offers an invaluable look at the politics and the personalities that shaped the movement and continue to shape American life."-Julian Bond"The Making of Black Revolutionaries was the most ambitious, politically astute, and emotionally engrossing memoir to emerge from the 1960s. Anyone interested in understanding the present state of Black politics should read this outstanding example of engaged historical analysis."-Clayborne Carson, Stanford University"An important documentary autobiography by a man who became one of the most important black leaders in the struggle for civil rights and freedom, this volume is moving, dramatic, at times almost overwhelming."-Library Journal"A searing, jolting document that will leave the reader full of that savage indignation that tears the heart."-New York Times"Acrid and eloquent. . . . this memoir draws on Forman's experience as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee."-Publishers Weekly
"James Forman's The Making of Black Revolutionaries is a classic, a personal, no holds barred inside look at the civil rights movement. Written by an insider, it offers an invaluable look at the politics and the personalities that shaped the movement and continue to shape American life."-Julian Bond "The Making of Black Revolutionaries was the most ambitious, politically astute, and emotionally engrossing memoir to emerge from the 1960s. Anyone interested in understanding the present state of Black politics should read this outstanding example of engaged historical analysis."-Clayborne Carson, Stanford University "An important documentary autobiography by a man who became one of the most important black leaders in the struggle for civil rights and freedom, this volume is moving, dramatic, at times almost overwhelming."-Library Journal "A searing, jolting document that will leave the reader full of that savage indignation that tears the heart."-New York Times "Acrid and eloquent... this memoir draws on Forman's experience as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee."-Publishers Weekly

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This eloquent and provocative autobiography, originally published in 1972, records a day by day, sometimes hour by hour, compassionate account of the events that took place in the streets, meetings, churches, jails, and in people's hearts and minds in the 1960s civil rights movement.

Notă biografică

James Forman. Foreword by Julian Bond

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An eloquent and provocative autobiography of an activist in the 1960s civil rights movement