Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

An intellectual biography of the trailblazing African American historian, activist, and scholar.
Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of Ebony magazine, but stretching far beyond the boundaries of the Johnson Publishing headquarters in Chicago, Bennett established himself as a prominent advocate for Black America and a scholar whose wr...