Search results
James Forman (October 4, 1928 – January 10, 2005) was a prominent African-American leader in the civil rights movement. He was active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. As the executive secretary of SNCC from 1961 to 1966, Forman played a significant ...
- St. Anselm's Catholic School
- Roosevelt University, Cornell University, Union of Experimental Colleges and Universities
- American
- 2, including James Forman Jr.
Apr 26, 2001 · James Forman was a civil rights activist and organizer who led SNCC from 1964 to 1966. He was born in Chicago, served in the Air Force, and graduated from Boston University. He worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee (UPC) after leaving SNCC. He wrote several books on African-American politics and culture.
Apr 11, 2017 · James Forman Jr. divides his superb and shattering first book, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” into two parts: “Origins” and “Consequences.” But the temptation is to...
James Forman Jr. (born James Robert Lumumba Forman; June 22, 1967) is an American legal scholar currently on leave from serving as the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America , which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction , and a co-founder ...
- 1
- James Robert Lumumba Forman, June 22, 1967 (age 56), New York City, New York, U.S.
Jun 19, 2020 · A biography of James Forman, a civil rights leader and political activist who was an integral part of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a leader of the Freedom Ride protests. Learn about his life, education, activism, and legacy from this comprehensive web page.
James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers.
Jan 12, 2005 · James Forman, a civil rights pioneer who brought a fiercely revolutionary vision and masterly organizational skills to virtually every major civil rights battleground in the 1960's, died on...