Randal Maurice Jelks

Randal Maurice Jelks is a professor, a documentary producer, and the author of African Americans in the Furniture City and Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement . Jelks has most recently written Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver and Muhammad Ali . He was an executive producer of the documentary I, Too, Sing America: Langston Hughes Unfurled . He currently teaches American Studies, African Studies, and...See more

Randal Maurice Jelks is a professor, a documentary producer, and the author of African Americans in the Furniture City and Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement . Jelks has most recently written Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver and Muhammad Ali . He was an executive producer of the documentary I, Too, Sing America: Langston Hughes Unfurled . He currently teaches American Studies, African Studies, and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. See less