| Portion of title |
Work and activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. |
| Series |
African American intellectual history
African American intellectual history. ^A1369436
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| Contents |
The Most Southern Place on Earth -- A Morehouse Man -- Writing About Everything -- Getting the Movement Told -- Before the Mayflower -- What Manner of Man -- Confrontation -- A Black Power Historian -- A Revolution in American Education -- The Challenge of Blackness -- The Man in the Middle -- We Are the Sons and Daughters of Africa -- A Fateful Fork -- Harold -- A Product of History -- Forced Into Glory -- We're Talking About Back Pay -- Epilogue : Our Kind of Historian. |
| Abstract |
"Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of Ebony magazine, but stretching far beyond the boundaries of the Johnson Publishing headquarters in Chicago, Bennett's work and activism positioned him as a prominent advocate for Black America and a scholar whose writing reached an unparalleled number of African American readers. This critical biography--the first in-depth study of Bennett's life--travels with him from his childhood experiences in Jim Crow Mississippi and his time at Morehouse College in Atlanta to his later participation in a dizzying range of Black intellectual and activist endeavors. Drawing extensively on Bennett's previously inaccessible archival collections at Emory University and Chicago State, as well as interviews with close relatives, colleagues, and confidantes, Our Kind of Historian celebrates his enormous influence within and unique connection to African American communities across more than half a century of struggle"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: West, E. James Our kind of historian Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022] 9781613769232 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2021054329 |
| ISBN | 9781625346452 paperback |
| ISBN | 162534645X paperback |
| ISBN | 9781625346469 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1625346468 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# |
40031252527 |
