Our kind of historian : the work and activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. /

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Author / Creator:West, E. James, author.
Imprint:Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
Description:vii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:African American intellectual history
African American intellectual history.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12748442
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Varying Form of Title:Work and activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
ISBN:9781625346452
162534645X
9781625346469
1625346468
9781613769232
9781613769249
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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"--
Other form:Online version: West, E. James Our kind of historian Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022] 9781613769232

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