The Deacons’ strength was that they were the only southern wide organization created and controlled by the black working class during the civil rights movement. It is no coincidence that it was... Read more »
The notion that the Civil Rights Movement in the Southern United States was a nonviolent movement remains a dominate theme of Civil Rights memory and representation in popular culture. Yet in dozens... Read more »
Soon after the summer of 1966, the council was disbanded. By this time revolutionary blacks were no longer trying to maintain any façade of unity. The “civil rights” phase of our struggle... Read more »
Against the backdrop of America’s escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city’s racist policies and contempt... Read more »
On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans’ best remaining hope for liberation... Read more »