Black Power: Politics of Liberation in AmericaAn eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published. A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order. |
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... is dedicated to our mothers, Mrs. Mabel Carmichael (affectionately known as May Charles) and Mrs. Viola White, and to all the black mothers who have struggled through the centuries so that this generation could fight for black power.
... is dedicated to our mothers, Mrs. Mabel Carmichael (affectionately known as May Charles) and Mrs. Viola White, and to all the black mothers who have struggled through the centuries so that this generation could fight for black power.
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... fight for Pan Africanism under an all—African Socialist Government have been sharpened by his work and study with Kwame Nkrumah, co-president of the Peoples Revolutionary Republic of Guinea, and Guinean President Sekou Toure prior to ...
... fight for Pan Africanism under an all—African Socialist Government have been sharpened by his work and study with Kwame Nkrumah, co-president of the Peoples Revolutionary Republic of Guinea, and Guinean President Sekou Toure prior to ...
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... fight to relieve their grievances. Mr. Dawson became assimiliated. The white political bosses could rule the black community in the same fashion that Britain ruled the African colonies —by indirect rule. Note the result, as described in ...
... fight to relieve their grievances. Mr. Dawson became assimiliated. The white political bosses could rule the black community in the same fashion that Britain ruled the African colonies —by indirect rule. Note the result, as described in ...
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... fight and die in defense of the colonial empire, without the ruler feeling any particular compulsion to grant the subjects equal status. In fact, the war is frequently one to defend the socio-political status quo established between the ...
... fight and die in defense of the colonial empire, without the ruler feeling any particular compulsion to grant the subjects equal status. In fact, the war is frequently one to defend the socio-political status quo established between the ...
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... fight Germany for the improvement of the status of black people—under the saved democracy—in this land. Even during the war, while black soldiers were dying in Europe, Representative Frank Park of Georgia introduced a bill to make it ...
... fight Germany for the improvement of the status of black people—under the saved democracy—in this land. Even during the war, while black soldiers were dying in Europe, Representative Frank Park of Georgia introduced a bill to make it ...
Contents
ITS NEED AND SUBSTANCE | 34 |
THE MYTHS OF COALITION | 58 |
THE POLITICS | 123 |
DYNAMITE IN THE CHETTO | 146 |
THE SEARCH FOR NEW FORMS | 164 |
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