Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American

From his leadership of the first modern lunch counter sit-ins at age twenty to his work on African American reparations at the time of his death at age seventy-

The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard Universi

This comprehensive study of African American politics since the civil rights era concludes that the black movement has been co-opted, marginalized, and almost w

Systematically illustrates the inescapable racism of American conservatism.