Randal Maurice Jelks

Randal Maurice Jelks is a professor of American studies and African and African American studies at the University of Kansas. His recent books include Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali and Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America.

Which Way the NAACP: On A. J. Baime’s “White Lies” and Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s “Civil Rights Queen”

Randal Jelks considers two books about underappreciated Civil Rights figures, A. J. Baime’s “White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret” and Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s “ Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.”...

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NONFICTION

HISTORY

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

How to Tell Africa’s History?

The saga of a continent, told by a longtime journalist....

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HISTORY

The Struggle for Black Education: On Jarvis R. Givens’s “Fugitive Pedagogy”

An outstanding contribution to the history of Black education that focuses on the career of Carter G. Woodson....

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EDUCATION

All Souls Rising

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POLITICS

HISTORY