Neighborhood Rebels

Black Power at the Local Level
2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-62076-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Contemporary Black History

This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, Mid-West and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new scholarship that is taking a second look at Black Power.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joseph, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; P.E.Joseph The Mecca: Harlem as Black Power's Headquarters; P.E.Joseph 'Get Up Off of Your Knees!' Competing Visions of Black Empowerment in Milwaukee During the Early Civil Rights Era; P.Jones The Gateway City: Black Power in St. Louis; C.Lang 'A Campus Where Black Power Won: Merritt College and the Hidden History of Oakland's Black Panther Party'; D.Murch 'We were coming with action': High School Students and the Development of Black Power in L.A'; J.Theoharis 'We Were Going to Fight Fire With Fire:' Black Power in the South; S.Wendt Black Power in Louiville; T.K'Meyer The Black Arts Movement in Atlanta; J.Smethurst Militant Organizing Across Time: Black Power in New Orleans Looking Back From Hurricane Katrina; K.B.Germany 'The Pursuit of Audacious Power: Rebel Reformers& Neighborhood Politics in Baltimore, 1966-1968'; R.Williams

Über Autor(innen)

Peniel E. Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University, USA, and the author of the award-winning and . He is a frequent national commentator on issues of race, democracy, and civil rights.