Our Kind of Historian
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Our Kind of Historian

The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

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Our Kind of Historian

The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

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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.

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Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781613769249
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: The Most Southern Place on Earth
  9. Chapter 2: A Morehouse Man
  10. Chapter 3: Writing about Everything
  11. Chapter 4: Getting the Movement Told
  12. Chapter 5: Before the Mayflower
  13. Chapter 6: What Manner of Man
  14. Chapter 7: Confrontation
  15. Chapter 8: A Black Power Historian
  16. Chapter 9: A Revolution in American Education
  17. Chapter 10: The Challenge of Blackness
  18. Chapter 11: The Man in the Middle
  19. Chapter 12: We Are the Sons and Daughters of Africa
  20. Chapter 13: A Fateful Fork
  21. Chapter 14: Harold
  22. Chapter 15: A Product of History
  23. Chapter 16: Forced into Glory
  24. Chapter 17: We’re Talking about Back Pay
  25. Epilogue: Our Kind of Historian
  26. Notes
  27. Index
  28. Photo gallery follows page
  29. Back Cover