Black Power in the Bluff City : African American Youth and Student Activism in Memphis, 1965-1975 /

This book examines how young Memphis activists, like Coby Smith and Charles Cabbage, dissatisfied by the pace of progress in a city emerging from the Jim Crow era, embraced Black Power ideology to confront such challenges as gross disparities in housing, education, and employment as well as police b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kinchen, Shirletta J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Student movements.
Race relations.
College students > Political activity.
Civil rights movements.
Black power.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Étudiants > Activite politique > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements etudiants > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Black power > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
College students > Political activity > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Student movements > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Black power > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Tennessee > Memphis.
Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "We want what people generally refer to as Black power": Black student and youth activism in the era of Black power
  • "The city was on fire": the beginnings of a movement
  • "Damn the Army, join the invaders": the Black organizing project and the invaders
  • "Make the scene better": the neighborhood organizing project, the decline of the invaders, and the promise and limits of Black power in Memphis
  • "Why not at Lemoyne-Owen?": student activism and Black power at Lemoyne-Owen College
  • "We can't be isolated any longer": Memphis State University, the Black Student Association and the politics of racial identity
  • Epilogue: "Black Panther Party not needed": the legacy of youth and student activism and the Black power generation in Memphis.

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