Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Joseph, P[Herausgeber]

Titel

Neighborhood Rebels : Black Power at the Local Level [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2010

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: community organizing, grassroots politics, and neighborhood rebels : local struggles for Black power in America / Peniel E. Joseph -- Malcolm X's Harlem and early Black power activism / Peniel E. Joseph -- "Get up off of your knees!" : competing visions of Black empowerment in Milwaukee during the early civil rights era / Patrick D. Jones -- Black power on the ground : continuity and rupture in St. Louis / Clarence Lang -- A campus where Black power won : Merritt College and the hidden history of Oakland's Black Panther Party / Donna Murch -- "'W-A-L-K-O-U-T!" : high school students and the development of Black power in L.A. / Jeanne Theoharis -- "'We were going to fight fire with fire" : Black power in the South / Simon Wendt -- Empowerment, consciousness, defense : the diverse meanings of the Black power movement in Louisville, Kentucky / Tracy E. K'Meyer -- The Black arts movement in Atlanta / James Smethurst -- Militant Katrina : looking back at Black power / Kent B. Germany -- The pursuit of audacious power : rebel reformers and neighborhood politics in Baltimore, 1966-1968 / Rhonda Y. Williams.
• 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.
• English