Dates

• Existence: 1928 October 4 - 2005 January 10

Biographical note

Civil rights activist James Forman was born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. He became involved with the civil rights movement in the late 1950s, taking leadership roles in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, executive secretary, 1961-1966), the Black Panther Party (BPP, minister of foreign affairs, 1968), and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. A prolific writer, Forman founded the Black America News Service and published numerous articles, pamphlets and books on the civil rights movement and Black revolutionary theory. He received a master’s degree in African and Afro-American History from Cornell University (1980) and a PhD from the Union of Experimental Colleges and Universities (1982). Forman died in 2005.

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