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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814075003321

Titolo

Neighborhood rebels : Black power at the local level / / edited by Peniel E. Joseph

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

ISBN

1-282-86984-1

9786612869846

0-230-10230-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Black history

Altri autori (Persone)

JosephPeniel E

Disciplina

323.1196/073

Soggetti

Black power - United States - History

African American political activists - History

Political participation - United States - History

Community power - United States - History

Neighborhoods - United States - History

City and town life - United States - History

African Americans - Politics and government

African Americans - Civil rights - History

United States Race relations

United States History, Local

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.