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About this book
An intellectual biography of the trailblazing African American historian, activist, and scholar.
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 ofĀ EbonyĀ magazine, but stretching far beyond the boundaries of the Johnson Publishing headquarters in Chicago, Bennett established himself as a prominent advocate for Black America and a scholar whose writing reached an unparalleled number of African American readers.
This critical biographyāthe first in-depth study of Bennett's lifeātravels 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 archival collections at Emory University and Chicago State, as well as interviews with close relatives, colleagues, and confidantes,Ā Our Kind of HistorianĀ celebrates his enormous influence within and unique connection to African American communities across more than half a century of struggle.
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 ofĀ EbonyĀ magazine, but stretching far beyond the boundaries of the Johnson Publishing headquarters in Chicago, Bennett established himself as a prominent advocate for Black America and a scholar whose writing reached an unparalleled number of African American readers.
This critical biographyāthe first in-depth study of Bennett's lifeātravels 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 archival collections at Emory University and Chicago State, as well as interviews with close relatives, colleagues, and confidantes,Ā Our Kind of HistorianĀ celebrates his enormous influence within and unique connection to African American communities across more than half a century of struggle.
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Table of contents
- CoverĀ
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- ContentsĀ
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Most Southern Place on Earth
- Chapter 2: A Morehouse Man
- Chapter 3: Writing about Everything
- Chapter 4: Getting the Movement Told
- Chapter 5: Before the Mayflower
- Chapter 6: What Manner of Man
- Chapter 7: Confrontation
- Chapter 8: A Black Power Historian
- Chapter 9: A Revolution in American Education
- Chapter 10: The Challenge of Blackness
- Chapter 11: The Man in the Middle
- Chapter 12: We Are the Sons and Daughters of Africa
- Chapter 13: A Fateful Fork
- Chapter 14: Harold
- Chapter 15: A Product of History
- Chapter 16: Forced into Glory
- Chapter 17: Weāre Talking about Back Pay
- Epilogue: Our Kind of Historian
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover