Manning Marable
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Manning Marable 🇺🇸

William Manning Marable
Historian, Author, African American Studies Pioneer, Pulitzer Laureate
Born May 13, 1950 🇺🇸 Dayton, United States
Passed Away Apr 01, 2011 New York City, United States
Lifespan 60 years old
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Archival Overview

Distinguished American historian and Columbia University professor who founded the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his definitive biography of Malcolm X.

Biographical Record

William Manning Marable earned his doctorate in history from the University of Maryland and taught at Colgate, Ohio State, and the University of Colorado before founding the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in 1993.

Marable was one of America's foremost progressive scholars of Black political thought, authoring hundreds of essays and seminal books including 'How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America'. In 2011, just days after his death, his magnum opus 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention' was published to universal critical acclaim, winning the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Key Life Milestones

1993

Founding IRAAS at Columbia University

Established the prestigious Institute for Research in African-American Studies in New York City.

2012

Posthumous Pulitzer Prize for History

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his definitive, decade-long scholarly biography of Malcolm X.

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Ferncliff Cemetery
Hartsdale, United States
GPS: 41.0267, -73.8267
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