Black History Month” Sam Greenlee”

If you have never heard Sam Greenlee? Yooo then ya need to from under ya rock and google him!!! His book “The Spook Who Set by the Door literally help mood and shape many of my views. Yes indeed we ain’t new to this...get your literary   

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Sam Greenlee was born in Chicago,Illinois to an African-American family. His parents were singer and dancer Desoree Alexander and railroad man and union activist Samuel Greenlee. He grew up in west Woodlawn.

He attended Englewood High School, and in 1948 won a track scholarship to the University of Wisconsin, graduating in 1952 with a BS degree in political science. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity (Beta Omicron 1950). He served in the United States Army from 1952 to 1954, earning the rank of first lieutenant, and from 1954 to 1957 did graduate studies in international relations at the University of Chicago.

The author, Sam Greenlee, was told by Aubrey Lewis (1935–2001), one of the first black FBI agents recruited to the Bureau in 1962,that The Spook Who Sat by the Door was required reading at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.Having been much rejected by mainstream publishers, Greenlee spy novel first was published by Allison & Busby in the UK in March 1969, after the author met Margaret Busby in London the previous year,and by the Richard W. Baron Publishing Company, in the US. It was subsequently translated into several languages, including French, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Finnish, Swedish, and German. The cinematic adaptation, also called The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973), was directed by Ivan Dixon, and the novel's author co-wrote the screenplay.