Veronica Chambers wrote in
Essence that Karenga's "intellectual voice is born of a mixed palette of teachings, from W. E. B. DuBois to Anna Julia Cooper, a legendary Black nineteenth-century feminist who attended the Sorbonne while in her sixties and received a Ph.D." The holder of two Ph.D.s of his own, Karenga pays particular homage to path-breaking blacks such as DuBois, Cooper, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Frederick Douglass.
Leadership Skills Revealed in College
The son of a Baptist minister, Karenga was born on a poultry farm in Maryland. He moved to Los Angeles in 1958 to attend Los Angeles City College, and while there became the first black ever elected president of the student body. He earned his bachelor's and masters' degrees in political science and African studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). At the beginning of the 1960s, Karenga met Malcolm X and began to embrace black nationalism and following the Watts Revolt in 1965, he interrupted his doctorate studies at UCLA and joined the Black Power Movement.
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