Title: Black power
Description: "In the 1960s, the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party gave voice to many economically disadvantaged and politically isolated African Americans, especially outside the South. Though vilified as extremist and marginal, they were formidable agents of influence and change during the civil rights era and ultimately shaped the Black Power movement. In this study, drawing on deep archival research and interviews with key participants, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar reconsiders the comingled stories of - and popular reactions to - the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, and mainstream civil rights leaders. Ogbar finds that many African Americans embraced the seemingly contradictory political agenda of desegregation and nationalism. Indeed, black nationalism was far more favorably received among African Americans than historians have previously acknowledged. Black Power reveals a civil rights movement in which the ideals of desegregation through nonviolence and black nationalism marched side by side." "Ogbar concludes that Black Power had more lasting cultural consequences among African Americans and others than did the civil rights movement, engendering minority pride and influencing the political, cultural, and religious spheres of mainstream African American life for the next three decades."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: African Americans, Black Panther Party, Black nationalism, Black power, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, History, Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.), Politics and government, Race identity, Radicalism, Radicalisme, Mouvements des droits de l'homme, Nationalisme noir, Droits, Noirs americains, Histoire, Politique et gouvernement, Etnisch bewustzijn, Identite ethnique, African americans, politics and government, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united states, African americans, race identity, United states, history, 20th century, Black muslims
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century