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Author:

Julian Bond.

Title:

The Making of Black Revolutionaties.

Edition:

Illustrated Edition

Publisher:

University of Washington Press,

Copyright Date:

1985

Description:

568

Subject:

A Constant Struggle--Roots of the Black Manifesto.--Childhood and Coca-cola--Roots of the Black Manifesto.
A Band of Sisters and Brothers in a Circle of Trust--The Circle Begins.--McComb Mississippi--The Circle Begins.

Other Authors:

James Forman.

Notes:

James Forman is the under-appreciated figure of the modern civil rights movement. His autobiography, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, is a classic. In a determined voice, Forman describes his life and activism. He doesn't mince words. Nor is he cautious in his descriptions of those he believes to be enemies of black progress, whether black or white. Revolutionaries is precious because it represents one of very few autobiographies by a youthful activist. A small library's worth of books now records and analyses the modern civil rights movement, and many adult figures of the activist movement have written their accounts. Among forman's contemporaries, Cleveland Sellers (The River Of No Return), Mary King (Freedom Song), Anne Moody (Coming of Age in Mississipi), Sheyann Webb and Rachel West Nelson (Selma, Lord Selma), Julius Lester (Lovesong), and Charles Coen (THe Cairo Story) are some who have written their own narratives of who they were, what they did, what they thought about it and then how they looked back upon it when matches and demonstrations had been stilled and some victories had been won.

Summary:

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

ISBN:

9780295976594
0295976594

Locations:

V3AX572 -- Kaplan University Library - Cedar Rapids (Cedar Rapids)