Pushing many of the feeble organizations aside, thousands of black youth stormed into militant Bl... more Pushing many of the feeble organizations aside, thousands of black youth stormed into militant Black Power organizations from coast to coast. Where there were only small Black Power organizations, they filled the ranks and made them bigger. Where there were no Black Power organizations in their locality, they established branches, and in that manner groups such as the Oakland Black Panther Party, the Los Angeles US Organization, and Amiri Baraka’s Committee for a Unified NewArk (CFUN) became national phenomena in 1968.
Founding member of the Congress for African Students at Dickinson College, Komozi Woodard ’71, re... more Founding member of the Congress for African Students at Dickinson College, Komozi Woodard ’71, returns to campus to discuss the study of racial segregation.
Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ... more Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centers of late-twentieth-century America, including his part in the election of black public officials, his leadership in the Modern Black Convention Movement, and his work in housing and community development. Komozi Woodard traces Baraka's transformation from poet to political activist, as the rise of the Black Arts Movement pulled him from political obscurity in the Beat circles of Greenwich Village, swept him into the center of the Black Power Movement, and ultimately propelled him into the ranks of black national political leadership. Moving outward from Baraka's personal story, Woodard illuminates the dynamics and remarkable rise of black cultural nationalism with an eye toward the movement's broader context, including the impact of black migrations on urban ethos, the importance of increasing urban concentrations of African Americans, and the effect of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on black political mobilization.
Benowitz makes extensive use of primary sources. Particularly intriguing are the selections and a... more Benowitz makes extensive use of primary sources. Particularly intriguing are the selections and analyses of letters between the women highlighted, the U.S. president, and organizational leaders. These excerpts clearly illustrate the evolution of their viewpoints, and it is here the book is at its best. Challenge and Change offers a cohesive picture of the issues and the people who pushed the Right's agenda, and how both changed over time. Benowitz explores an array of issues, organizations, and leaders, including Lucille Cardin Crain, Frances Bartlett, and Phyllis Schlafly, to demonstrate similarities and differences in approach. The book enhances our understanding of how and why the new Right cultivated support in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the growing influence of women in the movement. It succeeds in making direct connections between the old Right, the new Right, and the Tea Party, although the last receives less emphasis.
... The book Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebel-lum South, by Edward Campb... more ... The book Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebel-lum South, by Edward Campbell and Kym Rice, recounts several vignettes, culled from the WPA slave narratives of the 1930s, of slaves resorting to self-defense in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...
... $30.00, ISBN 978-0-670-02220-5.). Komozi Woodard. Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, New York... more ... $30.00, ISBN 978-0-670-02220-5.). Komozi Woodard. Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, New York. kwoodard{at}mail.slc.edu. ... is to recover a period of dramatic radicalization, especially Malcolm X's revolutionary voice, which was curiously absent when Alex Haley finished The ...
This study examines the history of the Black Revolt and the urban crisis, especially between 1966... more This study examines the history of the Black Revolt and the urban crisis, especially between 1966 and 1976, tracing the particular dynamics which propelled the writer, Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), into the ranks of Black leadership, and which transformed his organization, the Newark Congress of African People (CAP) into one of the most formidable Black Power groups in the country. The meteoric rise and fall of the hegemony of Baraka and CAP in the Black Revolt involved the unfolding of a cultural revitalization impulse--the Black Arts Movement; a grassroots urban social movement; and, a Modern National Black Convention Movement. This diverse Black awakening stirred all the basic social, economic, and political segments of the Black community to express their particular perspectives, concerns, and aspirations in the Black Agendas of the National Black Political Assembly, the African Liberation Support Committee, and the Black Women\u27s United Front. The study concludes that, contrary to the historical consensus, the Black Revolt did not end in 1968 with the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; instead it was transformed by the challenges of the urban crisis, and launched into a second phase, sustained by the Modern Black Convention Movement until 1976. This monograph is an oral history, based primarily on interviews with members of Newark CAP; secondly, on minutes, memoranda, and other documents of that organization; and thirdly, on the newspapers, journals, poetry, drama of the Black Arts Movement and the Black Revolt
Pushing many of the feeble organizations aside, thousands of black youth stormed into militant Bl... more Pushing many of the feeble organizations aside, thousands of black youth stormed into militant Black Power organizations from coast to coast. Where there were only small Black Power organizations, they filled the ranks and made them bigger. Where there were no Black Power organizations in their locality, they established branches, and in that manner groups such as the Oakland Black Panther Party, the Los Angeles US Organization, and Amiri Baraka’s Committee for a Unified NewArk (CFUN) became national phenomena in 1968.
Founding member of the Congress for African Students at Dickinson College, Komozi Woodard ’71, re... more Founding member of the Congress for African Students at Dickinson College, Komozi Woodard ’71, returns to campus to discuss the study of racial segregation.
Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ... more Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centers of late-twentieth-century America, including his part in the election of black public officials, his leadership in the Modern Black Convention Movement, and his work in housing and community development. Komozi Woodard traces Baraka's transformation from poet to political activist, as the rise of the Black Arts Movement pulled him from political obscurity in the Beat circles of Greenwich Village, swept him into the center of the Black Power Movement, and ultimately propelled him into the ranks of black national political leadership. Moving outward from Baraka's personal story, Woodard illuminates the dynamics and remarkable rise of black cultural nationalism with an eye toward the movement's broader context, including the impact of black migrations on urban ethos, the importance of increasing urban concentrations of African Americans, and the effect of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on black political mobilization.
Benowitz makes extensive use of primary sources. Particularly intriguing are the selections and a... more Benowitz makes extensive use of primary sources. Particularly intriguing are the selections and analyses of letters between the women highlighted, the U.S. president, and organizational leaders. These excerpts clearly illustrate the evolution of their viewpoints, and it is here the book is at its best. Challenge and Change offers a cohesive picture of the issues and the people who pushed the Right's agenda, and how both changed over time. Benowitz explores an array of issues, organizations, and leaders, including Lucille Cardin Crain, Frances Bartlett, and Phyllis Schlafly, to demonstrate similarities and differences in approach. The book enhances our understanding of how and why the new Right cultivated support in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the growing influence of women in the movement. It succeeds in making direct connections between the old Right, the new Right, and the Tea Party, although the last receives less emphasis.
... The book Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebel-lum South, by Edward Campb... more ... The book Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebel-lum South, by Edward Campbell and Kym Rice, recounts several vignettes, culled from the WPA slave narratives of the 1930s, of slaves resorting to self-defense in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...
... $30.00, ISBN 978-0-670-02220-5.). Komozi Woodard. Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, New York... more ... $30.00, ISBN 978-0-670-02220-5.). Komozi Woodard. Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, New York. kwoodard{at}mail.slc.edu. ... is to recover a period of dramatic radicalization, especially Malcolm X's revolutionary voice, which was curiously absent when Alex Haley finished The ...
This study examines the history of the Black Revolt and the urban crisis, especially between 1966... more This study examines the history of the Black Revolt and the urban crisis, especially between 1966 and 1976, tracing the particular dynamics which propelled the writer, Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), into the ranks of Black leadership, and which transformed his organization, the Newark Congress of African People (CAP) into one of the most formidable Black Power groups in the country. The meteoric rise and fall of the hegemony of Baraka and CAP in the Black Revolt involved the unfolding of a cultural revitalization impulse--the Black Arts Movement; a grassroots urban social movement; and, a Modern National Black Convention Movement. This diverse Black awakening stirred all the basic social, economic, and political segments of the Black community to express their particular perspectives, concerns, and aspirations in the Black Agendas of the National Black Political Assembly, the African Liberation Support Committee, and the Black Women\u27s United Front. The study concludes that, contrary to the historical consensus, the Black Revolt did not end in 1968 with the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; instead it was transformed by the challenges of the urban crisis, and launched into a second phase, sustained by the Modern Black Convention Movement until 1976. This monograph is an oral history, based primarily on interviews with members of Newark CAP; secondly, on minutes, memoranda, and other documents of that organization; and thirdly, on the newspapers, journals, poetry, drama of the Black Arts Movement and the Black Revolt
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