Fighting for Our Place in the Sun Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960–1973

«In this book, author Richard Benson II is able to uncover and offer insight into some of the lesser known aspects of Malcolm X's influence on African American student organizations during the 1960s and mid-1970s.»
(Andrew P. Smallwood, Adult Education Quarterly, Jan. 2018)

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«Each historical moment in the political struggle of African Americans grows, simultaneously, from ongoing racial oppression and the corresponding rise of resistance. [...] The tedious and dangerous work of social activism benefits from the efforts of intergenerational activists nurtur-ing the seeds of radicalism. It is within this historical context that Richard D. Benson's Fighting for Our Place in the Sun provides us an excellent narrative ex-pressing how oppression and resistance converged, leading to the radicaliza-tion of African American students in the 1960s.»
(Gayle T. Tate, The Journal of African American History Vol. 103/2018)