HIST 2684 - History of Black Power

Pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports, and in-depth oral histories reveal the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity. Focuses predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina.

Written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Includes records related to Civil Rights and Black Power:
-Black Liberation Army and the Program of Armed Struggle
-Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford)
-FBI Surveillance of James Forman and SNCC
-Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers of a Civil Rights Activitist, Political Activist, and Woman
-Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
-Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
-Republic of New Afrika

Newspapers, books, manuscripts, maps, and photographs. Simultaneously search: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, Sunday Times (London), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Making of the Modern World, Times Literary Supplement, and Times Digital Archive, Financial Times (London).

Oral history interviews with both well-known and unsung African American artists, business leaders, scientists, athletes, and intellectuals.

Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle modules includes papers from Civil Rights and Black Power organizations.

Speeches, reports, surveys, and analyses produced by the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries based at Fisk University.

Alternative press journals, magazines, and newspapers covering feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinx, gays, lesbians, etc.

U.S. Congressional materials (hearings, bills, Congressional Record and compiled legislative histories) and Executive Branch documents.