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J. Greyson Fike
This book has its genesis in 1965 when, as a college senior, I traveled to Montgomery, Alabama. Hundreds of students responded to a call from SCLC and SNCC that spring to join an intense effort to ...view moreThis book has its genesis in 1965 when, as a college senior, I traveled to Montgomery, Alabama. Hundreds of students responded to a call from SCLC and SNCC that spring to join an intense effort to register local Blacks to vote. While there, I witnessed police brutality against whites as well as Blacks just like we see today on America’s streets. Then, during the next three years organizing community protests against discrimination in housing and education in Chicago, I witnessed the same barbarous treatment of Blacks in the north.
Throughout my career as a charity fundraiser and multi-media producer, and then as a university professor of nonprofit management, I have worked to expose the often subtle but deeply rooted and pernicious ways whites have persisted in enslaving Black Americans economically, politically and culturally for five centuries.
I am thankful that retirement has brought the opportunity to write this story as just one example of how institutional racism permeates our business, political and cultural institutions as it poisons and destroys Black lives young and old.view less