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Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race

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Availability:In StockContributor:Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson, Quintard Taylor (Foreword by)Series:Plains HistoriesPublish date:2016-01-15Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Texas Tech University PressISBN-13:9780896729834ISBN-10:896729834UPC:9780896729834Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Civil RightsSize:9.20 x 8.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCWGTTXRRA
Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationally recognized black activist. Ernest Chambers, elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970, eventually became one of the most influential legislators the state has ever known. As Chambers bids for reelection in 2012 to the office he held for thirty-eight years, Omaha native Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson illuminates his embattled career as a fiercely independent self-styled "defender of the downtrodden." Tracing the growth of the Black Power Movement in Nebraska and throughout the U.S., Ali Johnson discovers its unprecedented emphasis on electoral politics. For the first time since Reconstruction, voters catapulted hundreds of African American community leaders into state and national political arenas. Special-interest groups and political machines would curb the success of aspiring African American politicians, just as urban renewal would erode their geographical and political bases, compelling the majority to join the Democratic or Republican parties. Chambers was one of the few not to capitulate. In her revealing study of the man and those he represented, Ali Johnson portrays one intellectual's struggle alongside other African Americans to actualize their latent political power.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Texas Tech University PressISBN-13:9780896729834ISBN-10:896729834UPC:9780896729834Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Civil RightsSize:9.20 x 8.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCWGTTXRRA
Johnson, Tekla Agbala Ali: - Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson, born in North Omaha, Nebraska, is assistant professor of history at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press

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