Table of Contents

Foreword by Julian BondPrefaceLetter to My Sisters and Brothers Book One: A Constant Struggle1. Driven Insane2. Childhood and Coca-Cola3. Roots of the Black Manifesto4. Ready to Kill5. A Family Fight6. Dreams and a .38 Cold7. Corrupt Black Preachers8. You're in the Army Now9. Okinawa--A Bad Dream10. Feeling Like a New Car11. God is Dead: A Question of Power12. Keep Your Pride13. Time For Action14. The great White Rat15. Georgia Mae Hard Times16. Forgetting the People17. Diary of Fayette18. Lucretia Collins: "The Spirit of Nashville"19. Violence or Nonviolence20. The Klan and a Frame-up21. The Kissing Case22. Robert Williams Versus Roy Wilkins23. No Room at the Swimming Pool24. Eruption in Newtown25. Moment of Death26. Strong Black Women27. Inside the Monroe Jail28. Justice, Monroe Style Book Two: A Band of Sisters and Brothers, in a Circle of Trust29. Miss Ella Baker30. McComb, Mississippi31. The Circle Begins32. Inside a Cubicle33. Albany, Georgia34. Attack the Power Center35. Broke, Busted, But Not Disgusted36. Terror in the Delta37. Ulcers and Carnegie Hall38. Noes for the Greenwood Jail39. Freedom Walk40. Betrayal in Birmingham41. Selma: Diary of a Freedom Fighter42. Machine Guns in Danville43. The March on Washington44. Americus, Georgia45. Selma Freedom Day46. The Freedom Vote47. The "Big Five" and SNCC48. Inside the Mississippi Summer Project49. The 1964 Democratic Convention50. Profiles in Treachery51. African Interlude52. Internal Disorder53. Power for Black People54. Kingston Springs55. Black Power Strikes56. Dynamite in Philadelphia57. The Bureau of Internal Revenue Attacks58. Rock Bottom59. The Indivisible Struggle60. The Arab-Israeli Dispute61. Blacks Assume Leadership62. The Organization of African Unity63. Literation Will Come from a Black Thing64. The Black Panther Party65. The Black ManifestoPostscript

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An eloquent and provocative autobiography of an activist in the 1960s civil rights movement

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"James Forman's The Making of Black Revolutionaries is a classic, a personal, no holds barred inside look at the civil rights movement. Written by an insider, it offers an invaluable look at the politics and the personalities that shaped the movement and continue to shape American life."-Julian Bond "The Making of Black Revolutionaries was the most ambitious, politically astute, and emotionally engrossing memoir to emerge from the 1960s. Anyone interested in understanding the present state of Black politics should read this outstanding example of engaged historical analysis."-Clayborne Carson, Stanford University "An important documentary autobiography by a man who became one of the most important black leaders in the struggle for civil rights and freedom, this volume is moving, dramatic, at times almost overwhelming."-Library Journal "A searing, jolting document that will leave the reader full of that savage indignation that tears the heart."-New York Times "Acrid and eloquent... this memoir draws on Forman's experience as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee."-Publishers Weekly