19 Facts About Manning Marable

William Manning Marable was an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University.

Manning Marable wrote several texts and was active in numerous progressive political causes.

Manning Marable was posthumously awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History for this work.

Manning Marable's parents were both graduates of Central State, an historically black university in nearby Wilberforce.

Manning Marable's mother was an ordained minister and held a Ph.

Manning Marable graduated from Jefferson Township High School shortly thereafter.

Manning Marable received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Earlham College and went on to earn his master's degree and Ph.

Manning 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.

Manning Marable 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, 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.

In 1979, Manning Marable joined the New American Movement, 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, and Manning Marable was elected as one of the new organization's vice chairs.

Manning Marable 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.

Manning Marable served as Chair of Movement for a Democratic Society.

Manning Marable served on the Board of Directors for the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, a non-profit coalition of public figures working to utilize hip-hop as an agent for social change.

Manning Marable was a member of the New York Legislature's Amistad Commission, created to review state curriculum regarding the slave trade.

Manning Marable was married twice, first to his Earlham classmate, Hazel Ann Manning Marable, and then from 1996 until his death, to Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Manning Marable, who was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, underwent a double lung transplant as treatment in mid-2010.

Manning Marable died of complications from pneumonia on April 1,2011, in New York City at the age of 60.

Manning Marable concluded that some of the killers of Malcolm X are still alive and were never charged.