Book Review: The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-158
Author(s):  
Khonsura Germaareki Kofi-Ofei
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Armed Resistance

scholarly journals Book Review: Black Power Encyclopedia: From “Black Is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings.

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
D. Singleton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
African American History ◽  
Black Power Movement ◽  
American Society

The Black Power Movement was largely a youth-led effort that broke from past thinking and methods of confronting American society and marked an important evolution in how African Americans continued their struggle in the wake of hard-fought landmark legislation such as the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. There is no shortage of reference works on the Civil Rights Movement and African American history in general that include entries on facets of the Black Power Movement.

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