Forman, James, 1928-2005
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Name (Latin)
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Other forms of name
Forman, Jim, 1928-2005
Forman, James R., 1928-2005
Forman, James, 1928-
Date of birth
1928-10-04
Date of death
2005-01-10
Associated country
United States
Occupation
African American civil rights workers
College teachers
Essayists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- 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)
- His Sammy Younge, Jr., 1968.
- His Self-determination ... c1981:t.p. (James R. Forman)
- 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)
- Wikipedia WWW site, May 25, 2005(James Forman; b. Oct. 4, 1928; d. Jan. 10, 2005; American civil rights leader)
- An important figure in the Civil Rights Movement, James Forman, known as James Rufus until age 14 ( (www.findagrave.com, June 19, 2015) )