Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960-1973 (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)

Scholar, author, advocate, Richard D. Benson II earned a PhD in educational policy studies from the University of
Illinois-at Urbana Champaign. He travels frequently as a guest lecturer speaking on topics such as the black student movement, and school-community advocacy. Benson resides in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is Assistant Professor in the Education Studies Program at Spelman College.

Title: Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960-1973 (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)

Author: Benson, II Richard D.

ISBN: 9781433117701

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Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Publication Date: 2014-12-23

Number of Pages: 304

Weight: 0.4764 kg

In this book, author Richard Benson II is able to uncover and offer insight into some of the lesser known aspects of Malcolm X's influence on African American student organizations during the 1960s and mid-1970s.
(Andrew P. Smallwood, Adult Education Quarterly, Jan. 2018)

Full review

Each historical moment in the political struggle of African Americans grows, simultaneously, from ongoing racial oppression and the corresponding rise of resistance. [...] The tedious and dangerous work of social activism benefits from the efforts of intergenerational activists nurtur-ing the seeds of radicalism. It is within this historical context that Richard D. Benson's Fighting for Our Place in the Sun provides us an excellent narrative ex-pressing how oppression and resistance converged, leading to the radicaliza-tion of African American students in the 1960s.
(Gayle T. Tate, The Journal of African American History Vol. 103/2018)