Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (1947) is an anarchist and 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 racial segregation in Chattanooga. He was drafted during the Vietnam War and served in the army for two years, where he became an anti-war activist. In 1967 he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and, a short time later, the Black Panther Party.
Works
Books
- Anarchism and the Black Revolution
- Black Capitalism
- The Progressive Plantation: racism inside white radical social change groups