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Names: Tinson, Christopher M., author.

Title: Radical intellect : Liberator magazine and black activism in the 1960s / Christopher M. Tinson.

Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017009457 | ISBN 9781469634548 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469634555 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469634562 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: African Americans—Political activity—History—20th century. | Liberator (New York, N.Y.: 1961) | African American political activists. | African Americans—Periodicals. | African Americans—Civil rights—History—20th century. | Anti-imperialist movements—United States—History—20th century. | Social movements—United States—History—20th century. | Black power—United States—History—20th century. | African Americans—Race identity—History—20th century.

Classification: LCC E185.615 .T59 2017 | DDC 323.1196/073—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017009457

Cover illustration: Front cover photograph, Liberator, June 1964 (courtesy of Pete Beveridge).

Portions of this book have been previously published in a different form as “Manning Marable and the Triumph of American Liberalism in Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” in A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X, ed. Jared A. Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 2012); “ ‘Harlem, New York! Harlem, Detroit! Harlem, Birmingham!’: Liberator Magazine and the Chronicling of Translocal Activism,” The Black Scholar 41, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 9–16.; and “ ‘The Voice of the Black Protest Movement’: Notes on the Liberator Magazine and Black Radicalism in the early 1960s,” The Black Scholar 37, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 3–15. Used here with permission.