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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 .
James Forman Jr. (born James Robert Lumumba Forman; June 22, 1967) [2] 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 ...
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America is a 2017 book by James Forman Jr. on support for the 1970s War on Crime from Black leaders in American cities. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction [1] and the Lillian Smith Book Award. [2]
Forman presented the manifesto to the public on May 4, 1969 at New York City's Riverside Church, interrupting a Sunday service to do so. [2] [10] [11] The day earlier, Forman had requested and been denied permission to speak, by the minister Rev. Dr. Ernest Campbell. Trying to prevent Forman's speech, Campbell directed the organist to play and ...
Henry James Forman (February 17, 1879 – January 3, 1966) was an American editor and author. He was famous for his 1933 book Our Movie Made Children , which was a summary of the Payne Fund Studies .
Doomsday Plus Twelve is a 1984 post-apocalyptic novel by James D. Forman. Plot introduction. The story is set in 2000, ...
Henry James Forman (1879–1966), author famous for his 1933 book Our Movie Made Children Henry Jay Forman , professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology Howard Forman (politician) (1946–2023), American politician in the state of Florida
James Weldon Johnson: Psi (Clark Atlanta Univ.) American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, professor and early civil rights activist; famous works include The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and the Black National Anthem "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" [7] Dr. Ralph W.E. Jones