Fighting for Us
Subtitle: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780814798782
Subjects: Black studies; Political activism; US (Organization); Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Biography / Autobiography; United States - 20th Century; Sociology; USA; History; History & Theory - Radical Thought; United States - 20th Century/60s; Biography; United States; 20th century; African American political activists; Black nationalism; Black power
First sentence: The history of the cultural nationalist organization called "US," founded by Maulana Karenga and a handful of others in 1965, is, for most students of Black nationalism, an untold story.