James Forman Finding Aid

James Forman Finding Aid

James Forman was an organizer, writer and activist. As Executive Secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which sought to register disengranchised black voters in the Deep South, Forman raised money, made speeches, and dispatched volunteers. Forman wrote a memoir, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, and voiced his political ideas and organizational acumen as founding president of the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee. The James Forman Library includes approximately 6,000 books and printed matter, and 36 boxes of FBI files, personal papers, and media materials.

Queens College Department of Special Collections and Archives (New York, N.Y.)

Queens College Department of Special Collections and Archives (New York, N.Y.)

Queens College Department of Special Collections and Archives (New York, N.Y.)

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