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

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 eventually became one of the most powerful legislators the state has ever known. Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson illuminates his embattled career as a fiercely independent defender of the downtrodden.

About the author

Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson, born in North Omaha, Nebraska, is assistant professor of history at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Summary

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 eventually became one of the most powerful legislators the state has ever known. Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson illuminates his embattled career as a fiercely independent defender of the downtrodden.

Product details

• Authors: Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2016
• EAN: 9780896729834
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-983-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 211 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Plains Histories; Plains Histories
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education