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1. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentJames Forman - African American Studies - Oxford Bibliographies

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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.

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   Until he was a teenager, Forman used the surname of his stepfather, John Rufus, a gas station manager, rather than that of his real father, Jackson Forman, a Chicago cab driver. Forman graduated from Englewood High School in 1947 with honors and then served in the Air Force before entering the University of Southern California in 1952.

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   Who is James Forman?

   • On Saturday, April 26, James Forman, a prominent member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(an organization that grew out of the sit-ins protesting segregated lunch counters) presented the Black Manifesto.

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   How did James Forman die?

   • 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 Monday at a hospice in Washington. He was 76. The cause was colon cancer, his son Chaka Esmond Fanon Forman told The Associated Press.

   James Forman Dies at 76; Was Pioneer in Civil Rights

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   Who is John Forman's son Chaka?

   • He later was president of the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee in Washington, where he was active in Democratic Party politics. In addition to his son Chaka, Mr. Forman, who was twice divorced, is survived by another son, James Robert Lumumba Forman, and a granddaughter.

   James Forman Dies at 76; Was Pioneer in Civil Rights

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   Did James Forman ask for reparations?

   • Correction: January 13, 2005, Thursday An obituary of the civil rights leader James Forman yesterday misstated a word in describing his call, in 1969, for reparations to be paid by Protestant and Jewish groups for the crimes of slavery. Mr. Forman asked for $500 million for crimes perpetrated against generations of blacks, not "by" them.

   James Forman Dies at 76; Was Pioneer in Civil Rights

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4. www.encyclopedia.com › forman-james-1928-2005Forman, James 1928–2005 | Encyclopedia.com

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   Contemporary Authors. Forman, James 1928–2005PERSONAL:Born October 4, 1928, in Chicago, IL; died January 10, 2005, in Washington, DC, from colon cancer; son of Jackson Forman (a jitney driver) and Octavia Rufus; married Mary Forman (divorced); married Mildred Thompson (divorced); married Constan- cia Ramilly (divorced); children: Chaka (son ...

5. www.theguardian.com › news › 2005James Forman | US news | The Guardian

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   Jan 14, 2005 · Christopher Reed. Thu 13 Jan 2005 19.01 EST. The black activist James Forman, who risked his life at protests in the American south during the civil rights era, has died aged 76, without knowing...

6. www.nytimes.com › 2017/04/11 › books‘Locking Up Our Own,’ What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men

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   Apr 11, 2017 · April 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...

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2005/01/12 › obituariesJames Forman Dies at 76; Was Pioneer in Civil Rights

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   Jan 12, 2005 · By Douglas Martin. Jan. 12, 2005. Correction Appended. James Forman, a civil rights pioneer who brought a fiercely revolutionary vision and masterly organizational skills to virtually every major...

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   Apr 18, 2017 · 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.Forman shows...