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In an effort to save the work of Black Radicals from being lost to history or books being removed from libraries, I put together this anthology. It was an effort to resurrect actions from the past: a Black man addressing Congress; Black woman calling for protest of the World's Fair for the depiction of Black people; Black student organization calling for resistance to the draft for war in Vietnam; Black woman nominated to run for Vice President of the US; grass roots community group opposing city sponsored waste incinerator, the first proposed in US.

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Cynthia HamiltonCynthia Hamilton has been an academic since 1972 when she started work at Simmons College in Boston. She worked for CLR James, the author of Black Jacobins, in 1968. Since then, she has taught at universities across the country (UCLA, University of California Santa Barbara, University of New Mexico, Universityof Rhode Island). She is a Political Scientist with an emphasis on urban redevelopment. She likes to think of herself as an activist since she started as an environmental organizer in Los Angeles. She was a worker in East Africa where she helped build schools in 1969.She is the author of several small books (Every Cook Can Govern, Thinking Beyond Capitalism with Robert Terrell, The Choice of Joy).She has lived with multiple sclerosis since 1993.

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