ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an account of the main expressions of Black Power-era political and economic radicalism that highlights their critical and programmatic subordination to the frameworks of cultural and political pluralism that defined the common sense of postwar American liberalism. It expresses that the largely unrecognized characteristic has had a significant impact on black politics since the Black Power era. For Black Power-era nationalists, it appeared that a template for ethnic politics existed in urban America. From 1970 to 1974, the number of black-led municipal regimes increased, as did the number of blacks working in housing authorities, redevelopment agencies, and welfare departments. Much of the increase in black employment "can be traced to the Great Society, either in terms of legislative initiatives or in terms of such as the massive expansion of preexisting programs, such as AFDC, due to the political climate created by the declaration of the national anti-poverty objective".
