The Making of Black Revolutionaries

by Forman, James

• ISBN13: 9780295976594
• ISBN10: 0295976594
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi	(3)
Julian Bond
Preface	xiv	(7)
Letter to My Sisters and Brothers	xxi
BOOK ONE A CONSTANT STRUGGLE	3	(212)
1 Driven Insane	3	(8)
2 Childhood and Coca-Cola	11	(9)
3 Roots of the Black Manifesto	20	(10)
4 Ready to Kill	30	(10)
5 A Family Fight	40	(5)
6 Dreams and a .38 Colt	45	(10)
7 Corrupt Black Preachers	55	(5)
8 You're in the Army Now	60	(6)
9 Okinawa--A Bad Dream	66	(11)
10 Feeling Like a New Car	77	(3)
11 God is Dead: A Question of Power	80	(12)
12 Keep Your Pride	92	(9)
13 Time For Action	101	(9)
14 The great White Rat	110	(6)
15 Georgia Mae Hard Times	116	(14)
16 Forgetting the People	130	(7)
17 Diary of Fayette	137	(8)
18 Lucretia Collins: "The Spirit of Nashville"	145	(13)
19 Violence or Nonviolence	158	(5)
20 The Klan and a Frame-up	163	(8)
21 The Kissing Case	171	(3)
22 Robert Williams Versus Roy Wilkins	174	(4)
23 No Room at the Swimming Pool	178	(8)
24 Eruption in Newtown	186	(7)
25 Moment of Death	193	(5)
26 Strong Black Women	198	(4)
27 Inside the Monroe Jail	202	(4)
28 Justice, Monroe Style	206	(9)
BOOK TWO A BAND OF SISTERS AND BROTHERS, IN A CIRCLE OF TRUST	215	(337)
29 Miss Ella Baker	215	(8)
30 McComb, Mississippi	223	(11)
31 The Circle Begins	234	(6)
32 Inside a Cubicle	240	(7)
33 Albany, Georgia	247	(15)
34 Attack the Power Center	262	(7)
35 Broke, Busted, But Not Disgusted	269	(8)
36 Terror in the Delta	277	(14)
37 Ulcers and Carnegie Hall	291	(3)
38 Notes from the Greenwood Jail	294	(4)
39 Freedom Walk	308	(3)
40 Betrayal in Birmingham	311	(5)
41 Selma: Diary of a Freedom Fighter	316	(10)
42 Machine Guns in Danville	326	(5)
43 The March on Washington	331	(7)
44 Americus, Georgia	338	(7)
45 Selma Freedom Day	345	(9)
46 The Freedom Vote	354	(7)
47 The "Big Five" and SNCC	361	(10)
48 Inside the Mississippi Summer Project	371	(15)
49 The 1964 Democratic Convention	386	(10)
50 Profiles in Treachery	396	(11)
51 African Interlude	407	(4)
52 Internal Disorder	411	(22)
53 Power for Black People	433	(14)
54 Kingston Springs	447	(9)
55 Black Power Strikes	456	(4)
56 Dynamite in Philadelphia	460	(11)
57 The Bureau of Internal Revenue Attacks	471	(4)
58 Rock Bottom	475	(6)
59 The Indivisible Struggle	481	(11)
60 The Arab-Israeli Dispute	492	(5)
61 Blacks Assume Leadership	497	(7)
62 The Organization of African Unity	504	(5)
63 Liberation Will Come from a Black Thing	509	(13)
64 The Black Panther Party	522	(21)
65 The Black Manifesto	543	(9)
Postscript	552