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Free Radical
Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson
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"A political biography of Nebraska state senator Ernest (Ernie) Chambers, investigating the tumultuous local and national political climate for African Americans from the late twentieth century to today"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; BGHA; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationally recognised black activist. Ernest Chambers, elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970, eventually became one of the most influential legislators the state has ever known. As Chambers bids for re-election in 2012 to the office he held for thirty-eight years, Omaha native Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson illuminates his embattled career as a fiercely independent self-styled “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 recognised black activist. Ernest Chambers, elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970, eventually became one of the most influential legislators the state has ever known. As Chambers bids for re-election in 2012 to the office he held for thirty-eight years, Omaha native Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson illuminates his embattled career as a fiercely independent self-styled “defender of the downtrodden.”
Tracing the growth of the Black Power Movement in Nebraska and throughout the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896727298
SKU
V9780896727298
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About Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson
Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson, born in North Omaha, Nebraska, is assistant professor of history at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. Quintard Taylor is the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington.
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