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Booker T. Washington rose from his slavery beginnings to become a national leader in education and civil rights. Beginning his career as a teacher and developing into a renowned speaker, Washington s influence is still felt today through Tuskegee University, which he originally founded.
Frantz Fanon is known as a champion of Africa against Europe, of black against white. 'Every brother on a rooftop can quote Fanon', it was said in the Chicago riots of 1967. He was a defender of the poor against the power elites; and his ideal of a Third World liberated from the West was for all mankind.: 'Let us try to create the whole man, whom Europe has been unable to bring to triumphant birth.'
Claude Brown is a Black man who made it out of slum Harlem, who pulled himself up from the gang wars, the pot-smoking, the stealing, the dope pushing, to become a law student at one of America's leading universities. Manchild in the Promised Land is his story. It is one of the most extraordinary autobiographies of our time
Booker T. Washington rose from his slavery beginnings to become a national leader in education and civil rights. Beginning his career as a teacher and developing into a renowned speaker, Washington s influence is still felt today through Tuskegee University, which he originally founded.
Frantz Fanon is known as a champion of Africa against Europe, of black against white. 'Every brother on a rooftop can quote Fanon', it was said in the Chicago riots of 1967. He was a defender of the poor against the power elites; and his ideal of a Third World liberated from the West was for all mankind.: 'Let us try to create the whole man, whom Europe has been unable to bring to triumphant birth.'
Claude Brown is a Black man who made it out of slum Harlem, who pulled himself up from the gang wars, the pot-smoking, the stealing, the dope pushing, to become a law student at one of America's leading universities. Manchild in the Promised Land is his story. It is one of the most extraordinary autobiographies of our time