TY  - GEN
T1  - Ronald W. Walters and the fight for Black power, 1969-2010
T2  - SUNY series in African American studies.
A1  - Smith, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1947-2023
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn980871704
AB  - From his leadership of the first modern lunch counter sit-ins at age twenty to his work on African American reparations at the time of his death at age seventy-two, Ronald W. Walters (1938-2010) was at the cutting edge of African American politics. A preeminent scholar, activist, and media commentator, he was founding chair of the Black Studies Department at Brandeis, where he shaped the epistemological parameters of the new discipline. Walters was an early strategist of congressional black power and a longtime advocate of a black presidential candidacy. His writings on the politics of race in America both predicted the constraints on President Obama in advancing African American interests and anticipated the emergence of the white nationalism found in the Tea Party and Donald Trump insurgency. In this fascinating book, Robert C. Smith combines history and biography to offer an overview of the last half century of black politics in America through the lens of the life and work of the man often described as the W. E. B. Du Bois of his time.
OP  - 339
CN  - E185.97.W1343 S65 2018
SN  - 9781438468686
SN  - 1438468687
SN  - 9781438468679
SN  - 9781438468662
KW  - Walters, Ronald W.
KW  - African American political activists : Biography.
KW  - Black power : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Black power : United States : History : 21st century.
KW  - United States : Race relations.
KW  - Activistes noirs américains : Biographies.
KW  - Black power : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Black power : États-Unis : Histoire : 21e siècle.
KW  - États-Unis : Relations raciales.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Political.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Process : Political Advocacy.
KW  - African American political activists
KW  - Black power
KW  - Race relations
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-2099
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
ER  -