All Power To the People!: Teaching Black Nationalism in the Post–Civil Rights Era

The Civil Rights Movement represents one of the most heavily studied social and political movements in recent American history. During the past two decades a thick body of historiography chronicling the movement's quest for African-American citizenship has emerged. ¹ Having spent the better part of a decade intensely studying the Civil Rights Movement, I find most striking the remarkably rich and complex nature of this history, yet traditional narratives of the era scarcely do justice to the movement's contradictions, successes, and complexity.