Ballots and Bullets

Ballots and Bullets
Ballots and Bullets

Ballots and Bullets

Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland
By Jonah Ansell, By James Robenalt, Illustrated by Carina Simmons, Illustrated by Eric Vennemeyer

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384 Pages, 6 x 9

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ISBN 9780897337045

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Chicago Review Press (Jul 2018)
Academy Chicago Publishers

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Overview

Examining the varioius forms of violence against African Americans that still exist 50 years after the summer of 1968
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Reviews

"A beautiful and moving portrait of a city that explains so much about our racial politics, then and now. Robenalt weaves together the stories of famous and not-so-famous black political leaders to show the consequences of racism and the ways that various leaders have tried to address it. An important topic that everyone would benefit from learning more about." —Michael Smerconish, CNN host and SiriusXM radio journalist

 


“Ballots and Bullets is a comprehensive account of this key historical moment that still resonates today.” —Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children’s Defense Fund
 


“Jim Robenalt brings new perspective to difficult history with a fresh approach....Ballots and Bullets takes on the complicated story of race and the police, but expertly places it in the larger historical context that includes Dr. King, Malcolm X, and Robert Kennedy. [Robenalt] is a rising, original historian.  —Rick Ungar and Michael Steele, Steele and Ungar, Sirius XM’s POTUS Channel
 


 “My father blazed a trail in the black power movement by becoming the first African American mayor of a major US city in 1967. This book dramatically chronicles his rise and the intersection of his journey with Dr. King and others in the civil rights movement.” —Cordell Stokes, Chairman and CEO CLC Stokes Consulting Group, and son of former Mayor Carl B. Stokes (1968–1971)
 


“Ballots and Bullets portrays a discrete but instructive chapter of American history.  The lessons therein are relevant today.” —Jeh Charles Johnson, former secretary of homeland security (2013-2017)
 


“Jim Robenalt tells a vivid if painful story of Cleveland’s place in the history of the struggle for civil rights—a struggle that continues today.  Reading this history reminds us of the work ahead.”—Jane Campbell, former Cleveland mayor (2002–2006)
 


“The history of our nation is a history of racial injustice and the fight to rectify it. In compelling prose, Jim Robenalt’s Ballots and Bullets does the vital work of shedding light on a pivotal moment in our nation’s history, when justice, civil rights, and the unfulfilled promise of America hung in the balance. His intense focus on Cleveland—the first major US city to elect an African American leader to the Mayor’s office—reminds us how quintessentially American Cleveland’s story truly is.”—Dan Moulthrop, CEO, The City Club of Cleveland.
 


“James Robenalt has taken on a challenging review of the interaction in Cleveland between Carl Stokes and Martin Luther King, Jr....The book is well written, well researched and accurate.  Any reader will be touched both in mind and heart.”—Joan Brown Campbell, General Secretary, National Council of Churches and Director of Religion, Chautauqua Institution
 

Author Biography

Jonah D. Ansell is a Los Angeles-based writer/director of animated and live action films. A former four-year NCAA starting pitcher, Ansell is a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College and an award-winning USC MFA screenwriting graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts. At twenty-five, he created and sold "Rivalfish, " a sports/pop culture humor magazine, to "National Lampoon," overseeing a staff of thirty writers nationwide to generate monthly readership of 150,000 readers. He and his creative work have been featured at NBC, ABC, FOX, MTV, " New York Times, USA Today, Entrepreneur, Glamour, Huffington Post, Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Allure, The Onion A.V. Club, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo! Sports, FHM, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution," "PRWeek, "as well as the recent book"""How'd You Score That Gig." Ansell currently serves as CEO & Chief Storyteller of Los Angeles-based integrated marketing and creative content development firm JAMS Productions, where he develops original creative content and campaigns for businesses, government agencies, and individuals. He and his creative work can be found on the web at jonahansell.com and jamstories.com.

Carina Simmons is an illustrator, animator, and designer living and working in Seattle. She consistently pushes traditional technique with all of her projects and has recently started a production studio with a strong focus in animation. Her most recent animated project will be premiering at Sundance 2013.


Eric Vennemeyer studied theater and German at Amherst College before setting out to see the world and use neither of his majors. He is a founding member of the award-winning filmmaking group Chinese Takeout and has worked as a freelance artist, animator, and English teacher. He is currently getting an MFA in film directing from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.


Abraham Dieckman is an award-winning animator and special effects artist, as well as a dedicated film director living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Having graduated from SFSU with a Fine Arts degree in Cinema, he is constantly pushing to expand his creative toolkit in bringing imaginative worlds to life. Most recently he completed a feature-length science-fiction film currently targeting the festival circuit, and screened a short film at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Connect with him online at skylightcity.com.