LET NOBODY TURN US AROUND: An African American Anthology

LET NOBODY TURN US AROUND: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An AFRICAN-AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY

Edited by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings / Rowman and Littlefield,
New York / 2009 / 682 pp

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This book is an attempt to compile a representative sample of the range of writings that reflect the political thought of black Americans in the United States from colonial times to the end of the twentieth century. The book reveals that being an African American activist or political figure entails more than just giving speeches and writing books. The bourgeois establishment has never taken kindly to African Americans critical of social injustices in the country. This is clear from Marable and Mullings’ dedication: “For those who have opposed the dominant society, taking a stand has often exacted a price: Marcus Garvey and Claudia Jones were exiled; W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson were severely harassed and denied passports; Henry Winston, Angela Davis, and Angelo Herndon spent years in jail; Fannie Lou Hamar and John Lewis were brutally beaten. From the mysterious death of David Walker to the executions and/or assassinations of Nat Turner, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Fred Hampton, the Attica Brothers, and countless known and unknown others, freedom for black people has always been won at a dear price.”