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Jul 24, 2018 · DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780190280024-0057. Introduction. Author, journalist, scholar, and lifelong civil rights activist James Rufus Forman was born to Octavia Allen and Jackson Forman in Chicago on 4 October 1928.
Morning Edition, January 12, 2005, "Profile: Career of Civil Rights Activist James Forman, Who Died This Week at Age 76." New York Times Book Review, July 14, 1985, review of The Making of Black Revolutionaries, p. 40. NPR Special Coverage, January 12, 2005, "Interview: Barbara Ransby Looks Back on the Life of James Forman."
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Biography: James Forman (1928-2005) was a civil rights activist. A native of Chicago, Forman spent much of his early life on a farm in Mississippi. After attending junior college, joining the army, and attending the University of Southern California, Forman completed his undergraduate degree at Chicago's Roosevelt University. In the late 1950s ...
Apr 11, 2017 · LOCKING UP OUR OWN Crime and Punishment in Black America By James Forman Jr. Illustrated. 306 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $27. James Forman Jr. divides his superb and shattering first book ...
Freeman was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. [3] He is the son of Mamie Edna (née Revere; 1912–2000), a teacher, [4] and Morgan Porterfield Freeman (July 6, 1915 – April 27, 1961), [2] a barber, who died of cirrhosis in 1961. [5] He has three older siblings. [6] Some of Morgan's great-great-grandparents were enslaved people who ...
Jan 31, 2008 · Forman was a contemporary of civil rights leaders like Julian Bond (who attended the ceremony at which James Forman Jr. officially donated his father’s papers, comprising some 70,000 items). Bond, a founder of SNCC, has served as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) since 1998.
