Acknowledgments

Foreword

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Introduction

Jeanne Theoharis

``Double V for Victory'' Mobilizes Black Detroit, 1941--1946

Beth T. Bates

The World of the Illinois Panthers

Jon Rice

Exposing the ``Whole Segregation Myth'': The Harlem Nine and New York City's School Desegregation Battles

Adina Back

``Negro Leadership and Negro Money'': African American Political Organizing in Oakland before the Panthers

Robert O. Self

``I'd Rather Go to School in the South'': How Boston's School Desegregation Complicates the Civil Rights Paradigm

Jeanne Theoharis

Religion and Radicalism: The Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr., and the Rise of Black Christian Nationalism in Detroit

Angela D. Dillard

Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam: Separatism, Regendering, and a Secular Approach to Black Power after Malcolm X (1965--1975)

Ula Taylor

Black Buying Power: Welfare Rights, Consumerism, and Northern Protest

Felicia Kornbluh

The Politics of Culture: The US Organization and the Quest for Black ``Unity''

Scot Brown

Between Social Service Reform and Revolutionary Politics: The Young Lords, Late Sixties Radicalism, and Community Organizing in New York City

Johanna Fernandez

It's Nation Time in NewArk: Amiri Baraka and the Black Power Experiments in Newark, New Jersey

Komozi Woodard

Afterword

Robin D. G. Kelley

Index