Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America

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An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.

A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order.

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4.5
11 reviews
Howell Arnold
September 10, 2021
I heard Stokely Carmichael on an old radio program from the 1960s. George Lincoln Rockwell was the other guest. Stokely was terrible. He mispronounced words, obviously he had no idea of their meanings and his grammar was atrocious. Rockwell, Nazi that he was, tried to encourage old Stokely to become a new Malcolm X, since Malcolm X had already been assassinated by Elijah Muhammad and the N.O.I. Stokely was clearly in over his head. Even Rockwell felt sorry for him, gently trying to lead him to where he was trying to go, cause Good old Stokely was lost ,had not a damned clue of what he was trying to say........God help black folks if they're depending on this stupid, illiterate buffoon to guide them
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A Google user
March 21, 2012
After reading the sample I immediately realized this is a must have for my digital library.
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Jonathan Thomas
August 30, 2022
All Pan-Africanist, regardless of country+concept must read. Relevant today as it was in '67, '92 and 202X
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About the author

KWAME TURE, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, was among the most fiery and visible leaders of Black militancy in the United States in the 1960s, first as head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and then as prime minister of the Black Panther Party, where he coined the phrase "Black Power." In 1969 he cut his ties with American groups over the issue of allying with White radicals, and moved to Guinea. He declared himself a pan-Africanist. In 1978 he changed his name to Kwame Ture, to honor African socialist leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekoe Toure. He lived in Guinea for 33 years, until his diagnosis with prostate cancer. He died in 1998.

CHARLES V. HAMILTON is a political scientist, civil rights leader, and the W. S. Sayre Professor Emeritus of Government and Political Science at Columbia University.

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