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Randal Maurice Jelks

Randal Maurice Jelks is Professor of American Studies and African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. His most recent book is Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali.

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Long before the Civil War, black abolitionists shared the consensus that violence would be necessary to end slavery.

Randal Maurice Jelks

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