Unleashing Black Power (eBook)

Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers

Peter D. Blackmer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
432 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5377-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Reappraising the rise of the civil rights movement in the iconic center of Northern Black lifeUnleashing Black Power explores the local dynamics, national connections, and global context of the Black freedom movement in Harlem from 1954 to 1964, illuminating how activists, organizers, and ordinary people mounted their resistance to systemic racism in the Jim Crow North. The richness of Black radical thought and action in this period made Harlem a key battleground in the national civil rights movement, transformed local Black grassroots politics, and facilitated the rise of Black Power in New York City. At the same time, the city's attempts to clamp down on activists revealed the repressive nature of Northern liberalism and heralded the expansion of the carceral state. Peter Blackmer argues that this decade of confrontations between Black communities and white state power caused Harlem residents and activists to seek ';new means' for achieving freedom within a city, state, and nation determined to deny it. Tracing the dual evolution of Black radicalism and white resistance, Unleashing Black Power offers a new framework for analyzing the epochal urban uprisings in the 1960s.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
• Zusatzinfo: 22 b&w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1954 to 1964 • Black Activism • black and puerto rican solidarity • Black civil rights • black freedom movement • black grassroots politics • BLACK INTEGRATIONISTS • black liberation struggles • Black Nationalists • Black New York • Black Power • black radicalism • Black rebellion • civil rights history • Civil Rights Movement • COINTELPRO • Congress of Racial Equality • Core • Federation for Independent Political Action • global freedom struggle • Grassroots Emergence of Black Power • Harlem Defense Council • Harlem history • Harlem is the Black World • Harlem Rebellion • James Baldwin • James Powell • Jesse Gray • Jim Crow New York • Jim Crow North • John Henrik Clarke • John Lewis • John O. Killens • mae mallory • Malcolm X • Milbank Center • New Afro-American Nationalism • Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference • Northern Student Movement • NSM • pan-Africanism • pan-african struggles • rent strikes • Richard Hildebrand • sncc • Spirit of Bandung • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • Sylvester Leaks • tenant organizing • Wagner Administration • white supremacy
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5377-4 / 0813953774
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5377-9 / 9780813953779