A Black Intellectual's Odyssey: From a Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League

by Martin Kilson

Book Overview

In 1969, Martin Kilson became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard University, where he taught African and African American politics for over thirty years. In A Black Intellectual's Odyssey, Kilson takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in the small Pennsylvania milltown of Ambler to his experiences attending Lincoln University--the country's oldest HBCU--to pursuing graduate study at Harvard before spending...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147801329X
• ISBN13: 9781478013297
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"