...The introduction establishes the setting for Pete O’Neal’s life in the United States. It describes the social turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s, including that period’s civil strife, racial discrimination, national and urban unrest, and black power movements. It discusses the formation...

...This chapter uses the intellectual evolution of Jamaican scholar and activist George Beckford to examine broader transformations in Caribbean radical thought sparked by the rise of Black Power. It argues that Beckford, a key figure in the New World Group, which was founded in 1962 and flourished...

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... Segregation Texas prison system Texas Department of Corrections TDC Attica N Y prison Rockefeller Nelson Brooks Chet Building tender system in Texas prisons DeLong Robert Mendez Butch Ruíz David Ruíz v Estelle Black Power Democratic Party in Arkansas Feeley Malcolm Jim Crow segregation Justice...

... and legislative career where she is part of a cadre of Black women who are operating across the Black Power and women’s movement. As a Black feminist, Chisholm plays a significant role in centering the lived experiences and voices of Black and Brown women that were often excluded from a broader women’s movement...

...This introductory chapter outlines the armed resistance of African Americans during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, otherwise known as the Black Power era. It serves as an entry point in the entire discussion of book, which explores black protection efforts in various southern...

...This chapter discusses the introduction of the slogan “Black Power” by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) chairman Stokely Carmichael in a march as a response to the shooting of civil rights activist James Meredith. The new slogan deeply disturbed white America. Journalist Paul...

...This concluding chapter describes how armed self-defense could be detrimental to the Black Power movement. Clashes between black armed groups and the Ku Klux Klan underscore that armed resistance to segregationist violence was far from exceptional and raise crucial questions about its limitations...

...This chapter explores the response of Forbes Burnham's People's National Congress (PNC) government to local, regional and international Black Power. It examines the complex relationship between the ruling party and the African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa (ASCRIA...

... in ASCRIA and the Working People's Alliance (WPA). It contends that Kwayana's curious absence from the narrative of global Pan-Africanism and Black Power is partly explained by his relative lack of international travel within Pan-African circuits, his immersion in Guyanese village and national life...

...This chapter offers personal reflections on the forty years since the upsurge of Black Power in the Caribbean. Four nodal points of the period are examined from the perspective of an analysis of radical politics in the Caribbean: the Rodney events of 1968 in Jamaica; the 1970 Black Power uprising...

... black voters, even if clandestinely. Elections statewide Evers Charles Holmes County Johnson Lyndon Baines Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party MFDP —voter registration and electoral races —1965 Aaron Henry Bell Osborne Black power Department of Justice U S Eastland James Federal registrars...

...This introduction considers why African American authors would engage Catholicism in their efforts to revise the national discourse on slavery during the civil rights and Black Power movements, a period characterized by a deep suspicion of the cultural institutions that historically supported...

...This chapter provides a regional and comparative analysis of Black Power in the Caribbean context. It first assesses what “blackness” meant within Caribbean conceptions of Black Power and the extent to which it could incorporate the region's many ethnic groups. It then assesses the ideological...

...This chapter examines how Black Power activism developed in 1960s Jamaica, highlighting the contributions of Walter Rodney, the Abeng group, and lesser known grassroots activists. It shows how Jamaican Black Power drew on multiple streams of resistance to British colonial legacies and to the neo...

...This chapter examines the Abeng newspaper in Jamaica as part of a radical political moment in the history of post-independence Jamaica. It sets the emergence of Abeng and the Jamaican Black Power movement in the context of a history of black political thought...

...This chapter traces the emergence of the Black Power movement in Trinidad and Tobago, arguing that for all its shortcomings, the “February Revolution” of 1970 had a discernible impact on Trinidadian politics, society and development. It examines the emergence of the National Union of Freedom...

...This chapter seeks to explore how Barbados participated in that global and regional moment for which “Black Power” as the emblem. It asserts that there were two convergent Black Power movements: one from above, and another from below, both of which sought to confront the limits of decolonization...

...This chapter explores Black Power in Bermuda, focusing in particular on the activism of Roosevelt Brown (Pauulu Kamarakafego); the Black Power conference held in Bermuda in 1969; the formation and activities of the Black Beret Cadre; and the assassinations of Bermuda's Police Commissioner...

...This chapter examines the Free Beach Movement which emerged in the context of dramatic economic and demographic changes in the U. S. Virgin Islands in the 1960s. Strongly influenced by the civil rights and Black Power movements on the United States mainland, this campaign made a significant...