The Four Histories of Black Power: The Black Nationalist Sector and Its Impact on American Society
@inproceedings{Rojas2014TheFH, title={The Four Histories of Black Power: The Black Nationalist Sector and Its Impact on American Society}, author={Fabio Guillermo Rojas and W Carson Byrd}, year={2014} }
Interest in the Black Power movement and its various political, social, and cultural organizations remains high among scholars and members of the Black community. Scholarship on these organizations and the movement’s overall trajectory often discusses how these organizations faltered by not fulfilling their role of leading the Black community in the post-Civil Rights era. In this paper, we revise this view with a survey of scholarship on the many organizations that defined the Black Power…
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