Black American Politics. From the Washington marches to Jesse Jackson by Manning Marable
Black American Politics was published by Verso Books in 1985. For the cover typography, designer Adrian Yeeles worked with tightly spaced Anzeigen-Grotesk. The photomontage by Peter Kennard combines the Statue of Liberty with the Black Power salute as popularized by Tommie Smith and John Carlos during the 1968 Olympics.
From the back cover, with added links:
The emergence of Jesse Jackson as a major contender in the 1984 race for the Oval Office sent shock waves through a complacent two party system in the USA. For the first time ever a black politician had to be taken seriously as a candidate for the most powerful job in the worid. Behind Jackson a wide range of peace activists, feminists, liberals and blacks joined forces – the ‘Rainbow Coalition’ was born.
In Black American Politics, Manning Marable describes Jackson’s campaign as a natural outcome of recent developments on the US black political scene. His study stretches back to the beginning of the century to chart the changing pattern of protest and political mobilization amongst American blacks: the widening support and politicization of the great marches on Washington from 1941 to 1983; the historic mayoral victory of Harold Washington over the Daly machine in Chicago; and the social and economic discrimination which makes today’s black leaders thenatural focus for a renewed challenge to the policies of President Reagan.
