Lawrence HammAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 18 April 2024
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Lawrence Hamms life links the most powerful social movements of the last 50 years. Appointed to the Newark, New Jersey Board of Education in 1971 at the age of 17, he balanced the radical world of Newarks Black Power Movement with a racially-divided citys practical public policy concerns. What were his rewards? Harsh criticism in the press, dropping out of Princeton University, being publicly attacked by the man who appointed him - Kenneth Gibson, Newarks first Black mayor - and an attempted framing on a gun he never had. Its the story of how one man juggled Princeton, the power and contradictions of the Peoples Struggle, employment in corporate America, marriage and fatherhood, with some days being better than others. His greatest accomplishment was helping to found the Peoples Organization for Progress, a grassroots activist group that for the past 39 years has been a fixture in New York tri-state area activist circles. From fighting to free Mandela in the 1970s and 1980s to
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