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Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People : history and memory
- Title
- Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People : history and memory / Michael Simanga.
- Author
- Simanga, Michael, 1954-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xiv, 191 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "The Congress of African People (CAP) was an important Black Power organization formed in 1970 and led by the activist poet Amiri Baraka. It made significant contributions to the Black Liberation Movement throughout the 70s as a leading organization in the National Black Political Convention, the National Black Assembly, African Liberation Day, the African Liberation Support Committee and the Black Women's United Front. CAP also became active in the new communist movement as the Revolutionary Communist League (MLM). This first-hand narrative of CAP is a part of a movement to document and analyze Black Power in the African American Freedom Movement from the 1950s through the 1970s"--
- Series Statement
- Contemporary Black history
- Uniform Title
- Contemporary Black history.
- Subject
- Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
- Simanga, Michael, 1954-
- Congress of African Peoples > History
- Black power > United States > History > 20th century
- African American political activists > Biography
- African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century
- National liberation movements > United States > History > 20th century
- Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Born into the Storm -- 2. Black Power -- 3. Founding of the Congress of African People : Emergence of Amiri Baraka as Political Leader -- 4. The Black Arts Movement and the Congress of African People -- 5. Ideology and Ideological Development -- 6. Maulana Karenga, Imamu Baraka and Kawaida -- 7. Amina Baraka and the Women of the Congress of African People -- 8. Revolutionary Kawaida -- 9. The Congress of African People and the United Front -- 10. Transition to Marxism -- 11. Black Marxist-Leninists, New Communist Movement -- 12. Transformed -- 13. Lessons.
- Call Number
- Sc D 15-876
- ISBN
- 9780230112155 (hardcover)
- 0230112153 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2014032963
- OCLC
- 755699225
- Author
- Simanga, Michael, 1954- author.
- Title
- Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People : history and memory / Michael Simanga.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Contemporary Black historyContemporary Black history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 15-876