James Forman (October 4, 1928 - January 10, 2005) was an American civil rights leader. He served in the Air Force in Okinawa during the Korean War. He was executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1961 to 1965, helping to make the institution politically important at the height of the civil rights movement.

Publications

• Sammy Younge Jr.: The First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement. 1968. Grove Press, New York. ISBN 094088013X
• The Making of Black Revolutionaries. 1985 and 1997. Open Hand Publishing, Washington D.C. ISBN 0295976594 and ISBN 0940880105
• Self Determination: An Examination of the Question and Its Application to the African American People. 1980. Thesis, later published by Open Hand Publishing, Washington D.C. ISBN 0940880091

External link

• Wahington Post Obituary