The Making of Black Revolutionaries: Illustrated Edition

600 Pages·1997·18.051 MB·English

by  James Forman, Julian Bond

James
Forman
New Foreword
by Julian Bond
The Making of.
Black Revolutionaries

The Making of
Black Revolutionaries
JAMES FORMAN
New Foreword by Julian Bond
Illustrated Edition
University of Washington Press
SEATTLE AND LONDON
Copyright © 1972, 1985 by James Forman
Foreword by Julian Bond © 1997 by the University of Washington Press
First University of Washington Press edition, 1997
Second printing, 2000
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Forman, James, 1928-
The making of Black revolutionaries I James Forman ; with a new foreword
by Julian Bond.-Illustrated ed.
p.cm.
Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Co. 1972
Includes index.
ISBN 0-295-97659-4 (alk. paper)
l. Forman, James, 1928-- . 2. Afro-Americans-Biography. 3. Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)-Biography. 4. Afro-Americans
Civil rights. I. Title.
El85.97.F715A3 1997 97-22031
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The paper used in this publication is acid-free and recycled from 10 percent post
consumer and at least 50 percent pre-consumer waste. It meets the minimum
requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences
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TO MY SONS
James Robert Lumumba
AND
Chaka Esmond Fanon
AND
ALL THE UNBORN REVOLUTIONARIES
WHO WILL ACCELERATE
AND INTENSIFY THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS

Contents
Foreword by Julian Bond xi
Preface xiv
Letter to My Sisters and Brothers xxi
BOOK ONE
A CONSTANT STRUGGLE
1 Driven Insane 3
2 Childhood and Coca-Cola 11
3 Roots of the Black Manifesto 20
4 Ready to Kill 30
5 A Family Fight 40
6 Dreams and a .38 Colt 45
7 Corrupt Black Preachers 55
8 You're in the Army Now 60
9 Okinawa-A Bad Dream 66
10 Feeling Like a New Car 77
11 God is Dead: A Question of Power 80
12 Keep Your Pride 92
13 Time For Action 101
14 The great White Rat 110
15 Georgia Mae Hard Times 116
16 Forgetting the People 130
17 Diary of Fayette 137
18 Lucretia Collins: "The Spirit of Nashville" 145
19 Violence or Nonviolence 158
20 The Klan and a Frame-up 163
vii
CONTENTS
21 The Kissing Case 171
22 Robe1t Williams Versus Roy Wilkins 174
23 No Room at the Swimming Pool 178
24 Eruption in Newtown 186
25 Moment of Death 193
26 Strong Black Women 198
27 Inside the Monroe Jail 202
28 Justice, Monroe Style 206
BOOK TWO
A BAND OF SISTERS AND BROTHERS,
IN A CIRCLE OF TRUST
29 Miss Ella Baker 215
30 McComb, Mississippi 223
31 The Circle Begins 234
32 Inside a Cubicle 240
33 Albany, Georgia 247
34 Attack the Power Center 262
35 Broke, Busted, But Not Disgusted 269
36 Terror in the Delta 277
37 Ulcers and Carnegie Hall 291
38 Notes from the Greenwood Jail 294
39 Freedom Walk 308
40 Betrayal in Birmingham 311
41 Selma: Diary of a Freedom Fighter 316
42 Machine Guns in Danville 326
43 The March on Washington 331
44 Americus, Georgia 338
45 Selma Freedom Day 345
46 The Freedom Vote 354
47 The "Big Five" and SNCC 361
48 Inside the Mississippi Summer Project 371
49 The i964 Democratic Convention 386
50 Profiles in Treachery 396
51 African Interlude 407
52 Internal Disorder 411
53 Power for Black People 433
54 Kingston Springs 447
55 Black Power Strikes 456
56 Dynamite in Philadelphia 460
viii
CONTENTS
57 The Bureau of Internal Revenue Attacks 471
58 Rock Bottom 475
59 The Indivisible Struggle 481
60 The Arab-Israeli Dispute 492
61 Blacks Assume Leadership 497
62 The Organization of African Unity 504
63 Liberation Will Come from a Black Thing 509
64 The Black Panther Party 522
65 The Black Manifesto 543
Postscript 552
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