International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest

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Manning Marable was a leading historian, scholar, and critic on African American rights, and class in the United States and a prominent biographer of leading figures in the struggle for civil rights. Born in Dayton Ohio in 1950, Marable received PhDs in history at the University of Washington and the University of Maryland. He went on to teach at Tuskegee University, the University of San Francisco, Cornell University, and Fisk University before founding and directing programs in Africana studies at Colgate University, Purdue University, Ohio State University, and the University of Colorado. In 1993 Marable founded the Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies as a professor of history and public affairs, a position he held until his death. Marable was the author of influential and prominent books on racial exploitation in the United States and leading works on historical African American activists who sought to transform society. Marable was a principal African American critic in the post-civil rights movement, arguing that the effort to achieve racial equality was unsuccessful in advancing the civil and economic rights of Blacks in the United States. Concurrently, Marable was recognized as a leading activist in advancing social change through communicating directly to working-class African Americans through newspapers, the Internet, and other media. ... log in or subscribe to read full text