Neighborhood Rebels

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction Community Organizing, Grassroots Politics, and Neighborhood Rebels: Local Struggles for Black Power in America

   • Peniel E. Joseph

   Pages 1-19

3. Malcolm X’s Harlem and Early Black Power Activism

   • Peniel E. Joseph

   Pages 21-43

4. “Get Up Off of Your Knees!”: Competing Visions of Black Empowerment in Milwaukee during the Early Civil Rights Era

   • Patrick D. Jones

   Pages 45-65

5. Black Power on the Ground: Continuity and Rupture in St. Louis

   • Clarence Lang

   Pages 67-89

6. A Campus Where Black Power Won: Merritt College and the Hidden History of Oakland’s Black Panther Party

   • Donna Murch

   Pages 91-105

7. “W-A-L-K-O-U-T!”: High School Students and the Development of Black Power in L.A.

   • Jeanne Theoharis

   Pages 107-129

8. “We Were Going to Fight Fire with Fire”: Black Power in the South

   • Simon Wendt

   Pages 131-147

9. Empowerment, Consciousness, Defense: The Diverse Meanings of the Black Power Movement in Louisville, Kentucky

   • Tracy E. K’Meyer

   Pages 149-171

10. The Black Arts Movement in Atlanta

    • James Smethurst

    Pages 173-190

11. Militant Katrina: Looking Back at Black Power

    • Kent B. Germany

    Pages 191-214

12. The Pursuit of Audacious Power: Rebel Reformers and Neighborhood Politics in Baltimore, 1966–1968

    • Rhonda Y. Williams

    Pages 215-241

13. Back Matter

    Pages 243-255

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This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, Mid-West and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new scholarship that is taking a second look at Black Power.

• cities
• essay
• evolution
• German
• Germany
• history
• history of literature
• politics
• reform

"This book is definitely up-to-date, accurate, and in tune with the most cutting-edge scholarship and trends in the history of Black Power, which Joseph has played a key role in invigorating. Indeed, he is ahead of the curve in pushing the study of Black Power to new heights." - Matthew C. Whitaker, Associate Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty in African and African American Studies and the School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University

"There is much to be excited about in this volume. It is an important work that not only offers fresh perspectives on the Black Power Movement, but a research template for undergraduate and graduate students interested in exploring the deeper dimensions of Black Power at the local level. Editor Peniel Joseph clearly understands this process and as a result has produced what I anticipate will widely be regarded as must read not only in the immediate future but for years to come." - Yohuru Williams, Vice President for History Education, American Institute for History Education

"Ten high-quality essays describe the varying ways in which black power as an ideology and a political program shaped post-WW II urban politics. The book excels in explaining how black power activists in Harlem, Milwaukee, Louisville, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Atlanta fought for community-based issues ranging from prison and welfare reform to school desegregation... Highly recommended." - CHOICE

Peniel E. Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University, USA, and the author of the award-winning Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama. He is a frequent national commentator on issues of race, democracy, and civil rights.

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