{"id":347,"date":"2024-02-13T15:13:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annettealston.com\/?page_id=347"},"modified":"2024-02-17T22:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T22:42:05","slug":"colibri-347","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annettealston.com\/?page_id=347","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Hamm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“…an intimate portrait of one man who took his elite education, tremendous oratory skills and well-honed stamina and created a transmutational spear from it\u2014documents how he always knew his journey meant nothing without the People.”<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Product Description<\/h3>\n

Lawrence Hamm\u2019s 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 Newark\u2019s Black Power Movement\n with a racially-divided city\u2019s 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\u2014Kenneth Gibson, Newark\u2019s\n first Black mayor\u2014and an attempted framing on a gun he never had. It\u2019s the story of how one man juggled Princeton, the power and contradictions of the People\u2019s Struggle, employment in corporate America, marriage and fatherhood, with\n some days being better than others. His greatest accomplishment was helping to found the People\u2019s Organization for Progress, a grassroots activist group that for the past 39 years has been a fixture in New York tri-state area activist\n circles. From fighting to free Mandela in the 1970s and 1980s to protesting local police brutality cases in George Floyd\/Breonna Taylor 2020 and beyond, this autobiography\u2014an intimate portrait of one man who took his elite education,\n tremendous oratory skills and well-honed stamina and created a transmutational spear from it\u2014documents how he always knew his journey meant nothing without the People.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lawrence Hamm<\/strong>, a candidate in New Jersey\u2019s Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in 2020,<\/strong> has been involved in every major social movement\n in the state for the last fifty years. As a nineteen-year-old, student activist from Arts High School in Newark, he was appointed to the Newark Board of Education in 1971 by Kenneth Gibson, the city\u2019s first Black mayor. Hamm\n was inspired to become a community activist because of the example of internationally known playwright\/poet\/activist Amiri Baraka. A graduate of Princeton University, he was part of the student leadership cadre that had a major campus\n anti-apartheid protest in the 1970s, years before the anti-apartheid movement became dominant on American campuses. He founded the People\u2019s Organization for Progress (POP) in 1983. POP, an independent, grassroots organization, became\n a recognized leader in New Jersey\u2019s anti-apartheid and Million Man March movements. A proud father of three daughters who are Rutgers graduates, he has been involved in fighting for quality education, employment opportunities and\n access to health care and against racial profiling and police brutality. POP, joined by Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and other activist organizations, led a successful, nonviolent protest and rally in Newark of more than ten thousand\n after the 2020 murder of George Floyd.  <\/p>\n

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Annette M. Alston<\/strong> is an award-winning writer from Newark, New Jersey.
<\/span>Her book <\/span>Harriet Tubman for Beginners<\/span><\/em> has received national<\/span>
<\/span>recognition.  Her three-part series on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the<\/span>
<\/span>Newark Rebellion was printed in the <\/span>New York Amsterdam News <\/span><\/em>and<\/span>
<\/span>the <\/span>Newark City News<\/span><\/em> where it won a NNPA Merit Award among the highest<\/span>
<\/span>honors for journalism in the Black press. Her essay, “Breathing in America”<\/span>
<\/span>was published in<\/span> Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism<\/span><\/em> by Michelle<\/span>
<\/span>Duster and Trina Sotira.<\/span>
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CATEGORY<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Biography, politics, sociology\/AFRICAN AMERICAN <\/p>\n

Page Count<\/strong>: 282<\/p>\n

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