Unleashing Black Power : grassroots organizing in Harlem and the advent of the long, hot summers / Peter D. Blackmer.
2025
F128.68.H3
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Title
Unleashing Black Power : grassroots organizing in Harlem and the advent of the long, hot summers / Peter D. Blackmer.
ISBN
0813953774
9780813953779 (electronic bk.)
9780813953755 hardback
9780813953762 trade paperback
9780813953779 (electronic bk.)
9780813953755 hardback
9780813953762 trade paperback
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2025.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
F128.68.H3
Alternate Call Number
HIS056000
SOC072000
SOC072000
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.1196/073074710904
Summary
"Illuminates how Harlem activists, organizers, and residents drew from local organizing traditions and global Black liberation struggles as they theorized and organized their resistance to systemic racism in the Jim Crow North from 1954 to 1964. This book offers a framework for analyzing the urban uprisings in the 1960s not as "race riots" but as rebellions against white supremacy and for Black liberation"-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Carter G. Woodson Institute series
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Introduction
A "rising tide" coming in, 1954-1957
"The Negro revolt," 1958-1959
The limits of liberalism in Harlem, 1959-1960
The spirit of Bandung, 1959-1961
The new Afro-American nationalism, 1961-1963
Interracial organizing and Black self-determination, 1960-1963
Rent strikes and repression, 1963-64
The time has come, 1964
Conclusion.
A "rising tide" coming in, 1954-1957
"The Negro revolt," 1958-1959
The limits of liberalism in Harlem, 1959-1960
The spirit of Bandung, 1959-1961
The new Afro-American nationalism, 1961-1963
Interracial organizing and Black self-determination, 1960-1963
Rent strikes and repression, 1963-64
The time has come, 1964
Conclusion.