Editing Manning Marable (section)

==Life and career==

Marable was born and raised in [[Dayton, Ohio]]. His parents were both graduates of [[Central State University|Central State]], an [[Historically black colleges and universities|historically black university]] in nearby [[Wilberforce, Ohio|Wilberforce]]. His mother was an ordained minister and held a Ph.D.<ref name=DDN>{{cite news|last=Katz|first=Marc|title=Marable part of Dayton's literary legacy|newspaper=[[Dayton Daily News]]|date=2011-05-08|page=D4}}</ref> In April 1968, at the behest of his mother, 17-year-old Marable covered the [[funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.]] for Dayton's black newspaper. He graduated from [[Jefferson Township High School (Dayton, Ohio)|Jefferson Township High School]] shortly thereafter.<ref name=Columbia_magazine>{{cite web|url=http://magazine.columbia.edu/features/summer-2011/manning-marables-living-legacy|title=Manning Marable's Living Legacy|date=Summer 2011|website=columbia.edu|publisher=Columbia Magazine|access-date=2017-04-03}}</ref>

Marable received his Bachelor of Arts degree from [[Earlham College]] (1971) and went on to earn his master's degree (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) in history, at the [[University of Wisconsin]], and [[University of Maryland]]. Marable served on the faculty of [[Smith College]], [[Tuskegee Institute]], [[University of San Francisco]], [[Cornell University]], [[Fisk University]], served as the founding director of the Africana and Hispanic Studies Program at [[Colgate University]], [[Purdue University]], [[Ohio State University]], and [[University of Colorado at Boulder]], where he was chairman of the Department of Black Studies. He was recruited in 1993 by [[Columbia University]] professor [[Eric Foner]] to be the founding director of Columbia's Institute for Research in African-American Studies,<ref name="Columbia Hond">{{cite news |last1=Hond |first1=Paul |title=A Message for the World |url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/message-world |access-date=February 7, 2021 |work=Columbia Magazine |date=Summer 2011}}</ref> and was later appointed as the [[M. Moran Weston]] and Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and professor of history and public affairs.<ref name="nytobit" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://international.ucla.edu/africa/event/7404|title=20th Thurgood Marshall Lecture by Dr. Manning Marable|website=African Studies Center|publisher=UCLA|date=April 16, 2009}}</ref>
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| source = John McMillan, former graduate assistant to Marable<ref name="Atlantic Manning">{{cite news |last1=McMillan |first1=John |title=For Manning |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/04/for-manning/73391/ |access-date=February 7, 2021 |work=The Atlantic |date=April 4, 2011}}</ref>
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In 1979, Marable joined the [[New American Movement|New American Movement (NAM)]], an organization of veterans of the New Left who were trying to build a successor to Students for a Democratic Society. In 1982, NAM merged with Michael Harrington’s [[Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee]] to form the [[Democratic Socialists of America|Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)]], and Marable was elected as one of the new organization’s vice chairs. He left the DSA in 1985 after Michael Harrington and his allies, following the lead of much of the mainstream union leadership, refused to back Jesse Jackson’s insurgent campaign in 1984.

Marable served as Chair of Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS).<ref name="good2007">{{cite web|last=Good|first= Thomas|url=http://antiauthoritarian.net/NLN/?p=179 |title=MDS Conference Elects Manning Marable Chair of MDS, Inc.|website=Next Left Notes|date= February 20, 2007}}</ref> Marable served on the Board of Directors for the [[Benjamin Chavis#Hip-Hop|Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN)]], a non-profit coalition of public figures working to utilize [[hip-hop]] as an agent for social change.<ref name="hsanboard">[http://www.hsan.org/Content/main.aspx?pageid=10 Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Board of Directors.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918033232/http://www.hsan.org/content/main.aspx?pageid=10 |date=September 18, 2008 }}</ref> Marable was also a member of the New York Legislature's Amistad Commission, created to review state curriculum regarding the slave trade.<ref name="bryant2008">{{cite news|last=Bryant|first= Erica|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/democratandchronicle/access/1693306341.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+29%2C+2008&author=Erica+Bryant&pub=Rochester+Democrat+and+Chronicle&desc=City+schools+want+better+curriculum+on+Africa&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106084502/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/democratandchronicle/access/1693306341.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+29,+2008&author=Erica+Bryant&pub=Rochester+Democrat+and+Chronicle&desc=City+schools+want+better+curriculum+on+Africa&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 6, 2012 |title=City schools want better curriculum on Africa|newspaper=[[Democrat and Chronicle]]|date= December 29, 2008}}</ref>