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'''Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin '''(1947) is an [[Anarchism|anarchist]] and [[Autonomism|autonomist]] activist and writer, being a theorist for [[Black Anarchism]].

== Life ==

=== Early Activism ===
When he was 12, Ervin joined the [[NAACP]] youth group and participated in the sit-in protests that helped end [[Jim Crow|racial segregation]] in Chattanooga. He was drafted during the [[Vietnam War]] and served in the army for two years, where he became an [[Peace Movements|anti-war activist]]. In 1967 he joined the [[SNCC|Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] and, a short time later, the [[Black Panther Party]].

== Works ==

=== Books ===
* [[Anarchism and the Black Revolution (Book)|Anarchism and the Black Revolution]]
* [[Black Capitalism (Book)|Black Capitalism]]
* [[The Progressive Plantation: racism inside white radical social change groups]]

=== Articles ===
* [[Authoritarian Leftists: Kill the Cop in Your Head]]
* [[Anti-Fascism and the Carceral State]]
* [[Back From Hell: Black Power And Treason To Whiteness Inside Prison Walls]]
* [[Black Faces in High Places]]
* [[A Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network]]
* [[It’s Racism Stupid!]]
* [[White on White Crime]]
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