| LC control no. | n 50050354 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3562.E853 |
| Personal name heading | Lester, Julius, 1939-2018 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Amherst (Mass.) |
| Located | Belchertown (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1939-01-27 |
| Death date | 2018-01-18 |
| Place of birth | Saint Louis (Mo.) |
| Place of death | Palmer (Mass.) |
| Affiliation | Fisk University Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Profession or occupation | Historians College teachers Poets Essayists Journalists Authors |
| Found in | His The 12-string guitar as played by Leadbelly, 1965. His The autobiography of God, 2004: CIP title page (Julius Lester) CIP page ii (also by Julius Lester: The twelve string guitar as played by Leadbelly; Revolutionary notes; The seventh son; Lovesong, becoming a Jew; Othello; Black folktales; The blues singers; Why heaven is far away; [etc.]) Wikipedia, Feb. 6, 2008 (Julius Lester; b. Jan. 27, 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri; alternate name Julius Bernard Lester; award winning author of children's books; retired prof., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst; active in the civil rights movement) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1939) African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Lester, Julius; historian, poet, essayist, radio / television personality, print journalist; born 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States; graduated from Fisk College with a degree in English (1960); moved to New York City and worked at a bookstore and for the welfare department in Harlem (1961); led songs at Freedom Schools and mass meetings in Mississippi (1964); worked at the national office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta (1966); traveled to Vietnam, Cuba, and throughout the South as a movement photographer; wrote a weekly column for the National Guardian, a radical newspaper (1967-1969); hosted a weekly radio show on New York's listener-supported station WBAI (1968-1975); published a two-volume edition of W.E.B. Du Bois's writings and began teaching Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1971); retired from the university as emeritus professor (2003); led a small synagogue, Congregation Beth El, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont (1992-2006); best known for his children's writings) Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 24, 2018 (Julius Lester, an intellectual explorer who chronicled African American life as well as his personal journey from the Black Power movement through a conversion to the Jewish faith, died Jan. 18 [2018] in Palmer, Mass.; he was 78; had taught for more than three decades at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst--first in the Afro-American studies department, then in the Judaic studies department--and resided in Belchertown, Mass.; wrote nearly 50 books, including works of nonfiction, fiction, memoir and folklore as well as literature for young readers; first established himself as a folk musician in New York, co-writing with Pete Seeger the book "The Folksinger's Guide to the 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly" (1965); Julius Bernard Lester was born in St. Louis on Jan. 27, 1939) |
| Associated language | eng |
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