Engines of the Black power movement
Subtitle: essays on the influence of civil rights actions, arts, and Islam
By: edited by James L. Conyers, Jr
Contributors: Conyers, James L
Publisher: McFarland & Co.; McFarland
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780786425402
Subjects: Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) -- History; Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Black Arts movement; Black Muslims -- History
Description: "Have civil rights for African Americans been furthered, or maintained, in the decades since the Civil Rights movement began? The movement is perceived as having regressed, with issues hidden. With a view to assessing losses and gains, this collection of 17 essays examines the evolution and perception of the African American civil rights movement from inception through today"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The spiral group : defining African American art during the civil rights movement / Sharon Pruitt; title: Jazz musicians in Europe : 1919 to 1945 / Larry Ross; title: Black power, Chicago politics, and social movements : what have we learned? / Elice Rogers; title: A critical assessment of the educational mission and praxis of the Black Arts movement / Andrew P. Smallwood; title: The Congressional Black Caucus : Black power realized? / Tanya Y. Price; title: Us, Kawaida and the Black liberation movement in the 1960s : culture, knowledge and struggle / Maulana Karenga; title: The Black arts movement in Omaha, Nebraska / Alonzo N. Smith; title: The role of the Africana writer in an era of struggle : the case of Hoyt W. Fuller and the Black Arts movement, 1961-1981 : a Kawaida-location analysis / Amir M. Abdurahman; title: The Nation of Islam : an historiography of pan-Africanist thought and intellectualism / James L. Conyers, Jr; title: Understanding Elijah Muhammad / Malachi Crawford; title: Noble Drew Ali : an historical perspective / Emerson Mungin; title: Islam in the civil rights movement / Saadi A. Simawe; title: Pathologies of public housing : an antecedent to crime and delinquency / James Chambers; title: Constitutionalism within the political ideologies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. / Otis B. Grant; title: Revising the best western view : civil rights, wilderness, and racial relocation / Steve Andrews; title: Guilt by association : women as participants and victims of lynching / Martin D. Lovett