Yohuru Williams
American academic, author and activist
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- PhD History Howard University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yohuru R. Williams is an American academic, author and activist. Williams is a Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas. He was previously the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas . He was previously a professor of history and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Fairfield University and former chief historian of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. Williams is a notable scholar of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. In 2009, Diverse magazine named Williams one of its Top 10 Emerging Scholars Under 40.
Yohuru Williams's Published Works
Published Works
- In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (2006) (51)
- Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era (2005) (37)
- Black Power Beyond Borders (2012) (31)
- Liberated territory : untold local perspectives on the Black Panther Party (2008) (31)
- American Exported Black Nationalism: The Student Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, and the Worldwide Freedom Struggle, 1967-1972 (1997) (22)
- Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power and the Black Panthers in New Haven (2000) (21)
- The Encyclopedia of New Jersey (2004) (15)
- Permission to Hate (2001) (12)
- Choice without Inclusion?: Comparing the Intensity of Racial Segregation in Charters and Public Schools at the Local, State and National Levels (2019) (10)
- The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present (2008) (8)
- The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution (2016) (6)
- Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement (2015) (5)
- In the Name of the Law: The 1967 shooting of Huey Newton and Law Enforcement's Permissive Environment (1998) (4)
- Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies, Grades 5-12 (2008) (4)
- “Some Abstract Thing Called Freedom”: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party (2008) (4)
- “Give Them a Cause to Die For”: The Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1969–77 (2008) (3)
- Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century (2008) (3)
- A TRAGEDY WITH A HAPPY ENDING? THE LYNCHING OF GEORGE WHITE IN HISTORY AND MEMORY (2005) (2)
- Introductory Comment: White Tigers, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Oh My! (2006) (2)
- “They’ve lynched our savior, Lumumba in the old fashion Southern Style”: The Conscious Internationalism of American Black Nationalism (2012) (2)
- Bringing the Black Panther Party Back In: A Survey (2008) (1)
- Introduction: The Black Panthers and Historical Scholarship: Why Now? (2006) (1)
- No Haven: From Civil Rights to Black Power in New Haven, Connecticut (2001) (1)
- Book Review. Standing Before the Shouting Mob: Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's Massive Resistance to Public School Integration by Alexander S. Leidholt (1997) (1)
- The Black Power Movement (2021) (1)
- Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt. By Hasan Kwame Jeffries. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. xx, 348 pp. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-4305-8.) (2010) (0)
- Anatomy of an Untruth: The Controversy over 'Picnic' and the True Cause of Lynching (2002) (0)
- A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1865-Present Documents and Essays. (2003) (0)
- 5. ‘‘Give Them a Cause to Die For’’. The Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1969–77 (2020) (0)
- Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965–75. By Joy Ann Williamson. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xiv, 192 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02829-5.) (2004) (0)
- Book Review. Black Power in Dixie: A Political History of African Americans in Atlanta by Alton Hornsby (2010) (0)
- Was Thomas Jefferson a Black Panther (2008) (0)
- John Hope Franklin's Troubled Tenure at Howard University, 1947-1956 (1998) (0)
- Book Review. Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon, by Jane Rhodes (2008) (0)
- 2America’s Second Civil War (2015) (0)
- You are the River of Change - transcript of speech (2014) (0)
- A House is Not a Home: the Collins Park Bombing of 1959 (2006) (0)
- Introduction. From Oakland to Omaha: Historicizing the Panthers (2008) (0)
- The Colorline Revisited: Is Racism Dead? (2001) (0)
- A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1619-1865 (2005) (0)
- Book Review. Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965–75 by Joy Ann Williamson (2004) (0)
- Pero Gaglo Dagbovie. African American History Reconsidered. (The New Black Studies Series.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2010. Pp. xviii, 255. Cloth $75.00, paper $25.00 (2012) (0)
- Flight to Freedom: African American Westward Migration after the Civil War [Curriculum Planner] (2001) (0)
- Black Power Beyond the Slogan: Peniel Joseph on the enigmatic Stokely Carmichael (2014) (0)
- 1. Bringing the Black Panther Party Back In. A Survey (2020) (0)
- Between a Rock and Hard Place (2015) (0)
- Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon. By Jane Rhodes. (New York: New Press, 2007. xii, 404 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-56584-961-7.) (2008) (0)
- âTheyâve lynched our savior, Lumumba in the old fashion Southern Styleâ (2012) (0)
- Treading Our Way: Selected Readings in Africana Studies (2004) (0)
- Book Review. Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era by Christopher Strain (2006) (0)
- The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections (2003) (0)
- Book Review: Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought by Dean Robinson (2004) (0)
- Book Review. Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia By Matthew Countryman (2007) (0)
- Book Review: Malcolm X: a life of reinvention (2011) (0)
- “A RED, BLACK AND GREEN LIBERATION JUMPSUIT” Roy Wilkins, the Black Panthers, and the Conundrum of Black Power (2013) (0)
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