BETH BATES Wayne State University
SCOT BROWN Cornell University
KATHLEEN CLEAVER Sarah Lawrence College
ANGELA D. DILLARD New York University
JOANNA FERNANDEZ Columbia University
ROBIN D.G. KELLEY New York University
FELICIA KORNBLUTH Duke University
MANNING MARABLE Columbia University
JOHN RICE Northern Illinois University
ROBERT SELF University of Michigan
ULA TAYLOR University of California, Berkeley
RHONDA Y. WILLLIAMS Case Western University

This is the first anthology of scholarship on civil rights activity outside the South

The contributors represent the current - and next - generation of civil rights scholars. Most have written groundbreaking monographs on the topics addressed in this book

The contribution of the scholarship in this book has been recognized by luminaries in the field of civil rights history, including Manning Marable, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Kathleen Cleaver, who will contribute an afterword, foreword, and preface, respectively

Preface; K.Cleaver Foreword; R.D.G.Kelley Introduction; K.Woodard, J.Theoharis & M.Countryman 'Double V for Victory' Mobilizes Black Detroit, 1941-1948; [...] The US Organization, Black Power Politics, and the United Front Ideal in Los Angeles and Beyond; [...] University of Michigan: From Protest to Politics: Community Control and the Black Power Movement in Philadelphia, 1965-1970; M.Countryman Social Justice in the City: The Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr., and the Rise of a Black Nationalist Coalition in Detroit; A.D.Dillard Radicalism in the late-1960s: A Chapter in the History of the Young Lords Party in New York; J.Fernandez The Right to Shop: Welfare, Consumerism, and Northern Protest; F.Kornbluth Black Revolutionaries on Chicago's West Side: A History of the Illinois Black Panther Party; [...] University of Michigan: Prospects for Freedom: African American Political Culture in Oakland from the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to the Black 'The Nation Makes Me Whole': Women in the Nation of Islam in Oakland, California, 1965-1970; U.Taylor 'I Wish I Was in the South': How Boston's School Desegregation Complicates the Civil Rights Paradigm; J.Theoharis The Search for Resident Power in Baltimore's Public Housing; R.Y.Williams The Dynamics of Black Power in the Newark Convention Movement; K.Woodard Afterword; M.Marable