Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationally recognized black activist. Ernest Chambers, elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970, eventually became one of the most powerful legislators the state has ever known. Omaha native Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson illuminates his embattled career as a fiercely independent defender of the downtrodden. Tracing the growth of the Black Power Movement in Nebraska and throughout the ...
Read More
Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationally recognized black activist. Ernest Chambers, elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970, eventually became one of the most powerful legislators the state has ever known. Omaha native Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson illuminates his embattled career as a fiercely independent defender of the downtrodden. Tracing the growth of the Black Power Movement in Nebraska and throughout the US, Johnson discovers its unprecedented emphasis on electoral politics. For the first time since Reconstruction, voters catapulted hundreds of African American community leaders into state and national political arenas. Special-interest groups and political machines would curb the success of aspiring African American politicians, just as urban renewal would erode their geographical and political bases, compelling the majority to join the Democratic or Republican parties. Chambers was one of few not to capitulate. In her revealing study of this man and those he represented, Johnson portrays one intellectual's struggle alongside other African Americans to actualize their latent political power
Read Less
Add this copy of Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the to cart. $6.49, like new condition, Sold by Academic Book Solutions rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Medford, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Texas Tech University Press.
Add this copy of Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the to cart. $6.49, very good condition, Sold by Academic Book Solutions rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Medford, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Texas Tech University Press.
Add this copy of Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the to cart. $6.55, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Texas Tech University Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
Add this copy of Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the to cart. $7.94, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Texas Tech University Press.
Add this copy of Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the to cart. $17.65, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2016 by Texas Tech Press,U.S..
Add this copy of Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the to cart. $25.00, like new condition, Sold by Friends ofOmaha Public Library rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Omaha, NE, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Texas Tech University Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Used; like new in Used; very good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Binding is tight and square. Contents are crisp, clean, complete and undamaged. Light wear and bump to head and tail of text block. Still Nice Copy! Book was donated to Friends of Omaha Public Library.
Add this copy of Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the to cart. $27.95, new condition, Sold by Russell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Victoria, BC, CANADA, published 2016 by Texas Tech Press,U.S..
Add this copy of Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the to cart. $33.72, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Texas Tech University Press.