Manning Marable

Manning Marable (1950-2011) was professor of public affairs, history, political science, and African American studies at Columbia University and the director of the university's Center for Contemporary Black History. He wrote or edited twenty-two books, including Living Black History, The Autobiography of Medgar Evers (coedited with Myrlie Evers Williams), Freedom (coauthored with Leith P. Mullings), The Great Wells of Democracy, Black Leadership, and How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America.