Marable, William Manning
1950-2011 · Contribution: 1983-2011
Education
Founded and directed Columbia University's Institute for Research in African-American Studies, wrote more than 20 books examining race and political economy in America, and was posthumously awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History for Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, completed just before his death and released the day after
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Marable built a leading center of Black Studies scholarship and reached mass audiences through decades of syndicated writing, while producing a Pulitzer-winning reassessment of Malcolm X.
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- Columbia University Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
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