*Bill Strickland is a scholar, activist, and professor emeritus of the Department of Afro-American Studies at University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. A native of Boston, Strickland graduated from Boston Latin School and Harvard University. After serving in the Marine Corps, he became active in civil rights and Black liberation work, serving as Executive Director of the Northern Student Movement; working in Mississippi for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; and serving as the Northern Coordinator of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's Congressional Challenge. He was a founding member of Malcolm X's Organization of Afro-American Unity in 1964, and in 1969, he also was a founding member of the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta. Strickland was a key member of the faculty in Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst, teaching history and politics, and serving as Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers. Strickland consulted on various documentaries including Eyes on the Prize (1987), about the civil rights movement; Malcolm X: Make It Plain (1994), for which he also wrote the companion book, also published in 1994; and W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996). He retired in 2013.
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Archive
UMass http://scua.library.umass.edu/strickland-william-1937/
New York Public Library https://archives.nypl.org/scm/29951
Images
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Book
Malcolm X: Make It Plain https://www.amazon.com/Malcolm-X-Plain-William-Strickland/dp/067084893X
Articles
Black Intellectuals and the American Social Scene https://scholarworks.umass.edu/afroam_faculty_pubs/7/
DuBois's Revenge: Reinterrogating American Democratic Theory…Or Why We Need a Revolutionary Black Research Agenda in the 21st Century (2008) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10999940801937748?casa_token=DHJLNhVeLasAAAAA%3AJyY_MlXv8CGxjxyym-tPeSb0Hx_xfYm_Mm83RuqFtkUxmqc71tOKFYvyNn4UEjVdjIyIUyIk7SRm
Critik: The Institute of the Black World (IBW), the Political Legacy of Martin Luther King, and the Intellectual Struggle to Rethink America’s Racial Meaning https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230601789_9
Things fall apart: Black struggle in imperial America and the need for an adequate theory of emancipation for the 21st Century https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00064246.2004.11413262
How Malcolm and Stokely and the movement redefined America (2015) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00064246.1997.11430872
Interviews
2011 Civil Rights History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-iCIYFxxI&list=PLyCyJuAGU1V50INDo00XzzoGIA3Dwfzkj&index=22&t=571s
2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbIHDEiCCjM
2015 https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/murg1_207_2013-i148
2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTIYxCtHfPE
Speeches
On Malcolm X 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-trIwEm7tY
Left Forum 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NrffH15MF4&list=PLyCyJuAGU1V50INDo00XzzoGIA3Dwfzkj&index=21
@ UMass Amherst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYqbdv-vO0&list=PLyCyJuAGU1V50INDo00XzzoGIA3Dwfzkj&index=20
Panel
1994 Town Hall (CSPAN) https://www.c-span.org/video/?61665-1/crisis-black-leadership
2000 Abraham Lincoln and Slavery https://www.c-span.org/video/?159690-1/forced-glory