The Making of Black Revolutionaries

James Forman

University of Washington Press, 1997 - History - 568 pages

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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LJ's reviewer dubbed this "an important documentary autobiography by a man who became one of the most important black leaders" (LJ 1/1/72). Forman here details his role as the leader of the Student ...

Contents

• Driven Insane: 3
• Childhood and CocaCola: 11
• Roots of the Black Manifesto: 20
• Ready to Kill: 30
• A Family Fight: 40
• Dreams and a 38 Colt: 45
• Corrupt Black Preachers: 55
• Youre in the Army Now: 60
• OkinawaA Bad Dream: 66
• Feeling Like a New Car: 77
• A Question of Power: 80
• Keep Your Pride: 92
• Time For Action: 101
• The great White Rat: 110
• Georgia Mae Hard Times: 116
• Forgetting the People: 130
• Diary of Fayette: 137
• The Spirit of Nashville: 145
• Violence or Nonviolence: 158
• The Klan and a Frameup: 163
• The Kissing Case: 171
• Robert Williams Versus Roy Wilkins: 174
• No Room at the Swimming Pool: 178
• Eruption in Newtown: 186
• Moment of Death: 193
• Strong Black Women: 198
• Inside the Monroe Jail: 202
• Justice Monroe Style: 206
• BOOK TWO A BAND OF SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN A CIRCLE OF TRUST: 213
• Miss Ella Baker: 215
• McComb Mississippi: 223
• The Circle Begins: 234
• Inside a Cubicle: 240
• Albany Georgia: 247
• Attack the Power Center: 262
• Broke Busted But Not Disgusted: 269
• Terror in the Delta: 277
• Ulcers and Carnegie Hall: 291
• Notes from the Greenwood Jail: 294
• Freedom Walk: 308
• Betrayal in Birmingham: 311
• Diary of a Freedom Fighter: 316
• Machine Guns in Danville: 326
• The March on Washington: 331
• Americus Georgia: 338
• Selma Freedom Day: 345
• The Freedom Vote: 354
• The Big Five and SNCC: 361
• Inside the Mississippi Summer Project: 371
• The 1964 Democratic Convention: 386
• Profiles in Treachery: 396
• African Interlude: 407
• Internal Disorder: 411
• Power for Black People: 433
• Kingston Springs: 447
• Black Power Strikes: 456
• Dynamite in Philadelphia: 460
• The Bureau of Internal Revenue Attacks: 471
• Rock Bottom: 475
• The Indivisible Struggle: 481
• The ArabIsraeli Dispute: 492
• Blacks Assume Leadership: 497
• The Organization of African Unity: 504
• Liberation will come from a Black Thing: 509
• The Black Panther Party: 522
• The Black Manifesto: 543
• Postscript: 552

About the author

William L. Lang is professor of history at Portland State University; he is the author of a number of books including A Confederacy of Ambition: William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory. Carl Abbott is professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University and author of several books, among them The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Making of Black Revolutionaries; Black thought and culture
• Author: James Forman
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of Washington Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0295976594, 9780295976594
• Length: 568 pages
• Subjects: History / General; Political Science / Civil Rights; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies