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Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood: The Passage

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Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood issued the call and was the catalyst for the rites of passage

movement for African-American boys.

The late psychologist, Asa Hilliard, called it "a unique and

indispensable contribution...a superior roadmap."

Praised by respected educators such as Jawanza Kunjufu, author of

Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys and Maulana Karenga, who wrote the

book, Introduction to Black Studies and created Kwanzaa, Bringing the

Black Boy to Manhood is "a needed and creative approach" that "can

become as meaningful to black people as Kwanzaa" (in the observation of

Prof. Oba Tshaka, based on his decades on the founding leadership of

NBUF (the National Black United Front).