Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction Community Organizing, Grassroots Politics, and Neighborhood Rebels: Local Struggles for Black Power in America....Pages 1-19
Malcolm X’s Harlem and Early Black Power Activism....Pages 21-43
“Get Up Off of Your Knees!”: Competing Visions of Black Empowerment in Milwaukee during the Early Civil Rights Era....Pages 45-65
Black Power on the Ground: Continuity and Rupture in St. Louis....Pages 67-89
A Campus Where Black Power Won: Merritt College and the Hidden History of Oakland’s Black Panther Party....Pages 91-105
“W-A-L-K-O-U-T!”: High School Students and the Development of Black Power in L.A.....Pages 107-129
“We Were Going to Fight Fire with Fire”: Black Power in the South....Pages 131-147
Empowerment, Consciousness, Defense: The Diverse Meanings of the Black Power Movement in Louisville, Kentucky....Pages 149-171
The Black Arts Movement in Atlanta....Pages 173-190
Militant Katrina: Looking Back at Black Power....Pages 191-214
The Pursuit of Audacious Power: Rebel Reformers and Neighborhood Politics in Baltimore, 1966–1968....Pages 215-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-255