Neighborhood rebels
Subtitle: Black power at the local level
By: edited by Peniel E. Joseph.
Contributors: Joseph, Peniel E.
Series: Contemporary Black history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230620766
Subjects: Black power -- United States -- History; African American political activists -- History; Political participation -- United States -- History; Community power -- United States -- History; Neighborhood -- 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Community organizing, grassroots politics, and neighborhood rebels : local struggles for Black power in America / Peniel E. Joseph; title: Malcolm X's Harlem and early Black power activism / Peniel E. Joseph; title: "Get up off of your knees!" : competing visions of Black empowerment in Milwaukee during the early civil rights era / Patrick Jones; title: Black power on the ground : continuity and rupture in St. Louis / Clarence Lang; title: "A campus where Black power won" : Merritt College and the hidden history of Oakland's Black Panther Party / Donna Murch; title: "'We were coming with action" : high school students and the development of Black power in L.A. / Jeanne Theoharis; title: "'We were going to fight fire with fire" : Black power in the South / Simon Wendt; title: Empowerment, consciousness, defense : the diverse meanings of the Black power movement in Louisville, Kentucky / Tracy K'Meyer; title: The Black arts movement in Atlanta / James Smethurst; title: Militant Katrina : looking back at Black power / Kent B. Germany; title: "The pursuit of audacious power" : rebel reformers & neighborhood politics in Baltimore, 1966-1968 / Rhonda Williams.