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Ready for Revolution

The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

Ready for Revolution( )
Author: Carmichael, Stokely
Ture, Kwame
As told to: Thelwell, Ekwueme Michael
Introduction by: Widerman, John Edgar
Intro and Notes by: Wideman, John Edgar
ISBN:978-0-684-85003-0
Publication Date:Nov 2003
Publisher:Scribner
Imprint:Scribner
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $35.00
Book Description:

The long-anticipated, riveting autobiography of,the late Stokely Carmichael chronicles the,legendary civil rights leader's work as the,charismatic patriarch of Black Power, Pan-African,activist, and social revolutionary - a major,milestone in African-American autobiography.,Populated with an international cast of,luminaries, including James Baldwin, Fannie Lou,Hamer, Miriam Makeba, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Toni,Morrison, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Ho,Chi Minh and Fidel Castro,...
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Book Details
Pages:640
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists
Biography & Autobiography / African American & Black
History / African American & Black
Political Science / Civil Rights
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.031 x 7.722 x 0.651 Inches
Book Weight:2.209 Pounds
Author Biography
Carmichael, Stokely (Author)
Writer John Edgar Wideman was born in Washington, D. C., on June 14, 1941. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, studied at Oxford University, and was the second African American to become a Rhodes Scholar.

He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually founded and chaired the African American studies department. He also taught at the University of Wyoming and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Wideman is the author of more than a dozen books. Sent for You Yesterday won a PEN/Faulkner Award in 1984, and Philadelphia Fire received one a decade later. Fatheralong was a finalist for the National Book Award (1994) and Brothers and Keepers was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (1995).

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