Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race

by Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson

Book Overview

Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationally recognized black activist. Ernest Chambers, elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970, eventually became one of the most influential legislators the state has ever known. As Chambers bids for reelection in 2012 to the office he held for thirty-eight years, Omaha native Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896729834
• ISBN13: 9780896729834
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 9.2"