| LC control no. | n 50024968 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Forman, James, 1928-2005 |
| Variant(s) | Forman, James R., 1928-2005 Forman, Jim, 1928-2005 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1928-10-04 |
| Death date | 2005-01-10 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Roosevelt University Boston University Chicago Teachers College Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Nonviolent Action Group (Washington, D.C.) Black Panther Party American University (Washington, D.C.) |
| Profession or occupation | African American civil rights workers Essayists College teachers |
| Found in | His Sammy Younge, Jr., 1968. His Self-determination ... c1981: t.p. (James R. Forman) Wikipedia WWW site, May 25, 2005 (James Forman; b. Oct. 4, 1928; d. Jan. 10, 2005; American civil rights leader) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Forman, James; civil rights activist, essayist; born October 04, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; graduated from Roosevelt University in Chicago (1957), spent one year as a graduate student of African affairs and government at Boston University; took education courses at Chicago Teacher's College (1959); traveled to Fayette County, Tennessee, on behalf of an emergency relief committee formed by the Chicago chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); member and officer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); briefly held the title of minister of foreign affairs for the Black Panthers (1968), presented a Black Manifesto calling for a socialist revolution against capitalism at the 1969 National Black Economic Development Conference; legislative assistant to the president of the Metropolitan Washington Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO); taught at American University in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s and 1990s; president of the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee; publisher of the Black America News Service; died January 10, 2005 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States) www.findagrave.com, June 19, 2015 (An important figure in the Civil Rights Movement, James Forman, known as James Rufus until age 14) <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10307831> NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Res. Center (Howard Univ.) for St. Clair Drake interview, 1969 July 28: (analyzes the new directions of SNCC's Stokely Carmichael and Jim Forman) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 81125259 |
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