Revolutionary notes / Julius Lester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lester, Julius, 1939-2018.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

United States.

Social conditions.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Revolutionaries.

World politics--1965-1975.

World politics.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 209 pages; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York,: Richard W. Baron, 1969.

Contents:

Part One. Protest and Resistance. Che is Alive-on East 103rd Street. Judgment in Stockholm. The Duty of a Revolutionary Is

Part Two. SNCC and the Israeli-Arab War. Confrontation at the Pentagon. The Legalisms of Repression. Che Guevara and the Cult of the Personality. The Necessity of Violence. The White Radical as Revolutionary. The House Arrest of H. Rap Brown. Radicals and Media. Agents and Radical Organizations. Agents and demonstrations. The Oppression of Whites. The Orangeburg Massacre. The Riot Commission Report. Right and Wrong. The Yippies. The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership in the Movement. On Becoming Revolutionary. Learning From Mistakes. Reactionary Aspects of Black Power. Rumors. Not in Memory of Robert Kennedy. Political Meaning of Death of RFK. Signs of Repression. The Poor People's Campaign and Radicals. On Being Revolutionary. Women's Liberation. The Battle of Cleveland. Birth Control and Blacks. SNCC and the Black Panthers. Yippies in Chicago. The Chicago Demonstrations. George Wallace and the People. The Russian Occupations of Czechoslovakia. The Deception of Rhetoric. Limits of the Student Movement. The Faith of the Revolutionary. The Media and the Cult of the Personality. Jewish Racism and Black Anti-Semitism. The Movement at the End of the Decade. The Cultural Worker in the Revolution. Military Strategy in the Black Community. Self-Criticism.

Notes:

"First published in 1969 by the Richard W. Baron Pubolishing Co., Inc."

Caricature of Julius Lester by Blanco, in Gramma on title page.

Includes index.

"Jacket Design by Helen Reddick."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

OCLC:

45040