Stealin’ the Meetin’: Black Education History and the Black Panthers’ Oakland Community School
Stealin’ the Meetin’: Black Education History and the Black Panthers’ Oakland Community School traces the legacy of Black education in the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School (OCS) as one of many Black independent education projects for social justice in the United States. The book argues that the Oakland Community School extended the already growing educational programs of the BPP and the broader San Francisco Bay Area to establish transformative teaching approaches with elementary-aged children long before many of these practices became popular.
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Essential Soldiers: Women Activists in Pan-African Cultural Nationalist Organization
From Complements to Service Leaders: Women Activists in Pan-African Cultural Nationalist Organizations, 1965-1987 explores the memories and motivations of women who helped mold Pan-African cultural nationalism through challenging, refining, and reshaping organizations influenced by Kawaida, the Black liberation philosophy that gave rise to Kwanzaa. This book focuses on female advocates in the Us Organization, Committee for a Unified Newark and the Congress of African People, the East, and Ahidiana. Emphasizing the years 1965 through the mid-to-late 1980s, the work delves into the women’s developing sense of racial and gender consciousness against the backdrop of the Black Power Movement.
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BLACK APPLE: A History of Malcolm X and Black Power in New York, 1954-1974
His fiery speeches, striking analogies, advocacy of Black solidarity, self-determination, self-defense, and cultural pride; his constant and forceful ridiculing of assimilationists and non-violent civil rights activists stimulated a generation of Black power activists across the nation during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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