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Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement

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Tuesday, February 21st 2017

7:30 pm

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In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X’s educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of 1960's Black activists that sought to create spaces of liberation and learning that are free from cultural and racial oppression. 

Richard D. Benson II is an assistant professor in the Education Department at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA. A native of Chicago, Dr. Benson earned his Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies specializing in the history of education from the University of Illinois. Currently he is working on a manuscript entitled, Funding the Revolution: Black Power, White Church Money and the Financial Architects of Black Radicalism 1966-1976.

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