Charles V. Hamilton

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Charles V. Hamilton (* 1929 in Muskogee , Oklahoma ) is an American political scientist and civil rights activist . He was WS Sayre Professor of State and Political Science at Columbia University .

Life

Hamilton graduated from Roosevelt University in 1951 and went to the University of Chicago for his master's degree in 1957. He worked at the Tuskegee Institute from 1958, but his contract was terminated in 1960 and he went back to the University of Chicago . There he received his doctorate in 1964. He held positions at Rutgers University , Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, and Roosevelt University before joining Columbia University in 1969.

In 1969, his book Black Power: The Politics of Liberation , written with Stokely Carmichael , laid the theoretical basis for the Black Power movement in the USA.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Living Legacies. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ Black Power - Rhetoric to Reality | News | The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Charles V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Muskogee , Oklahoma