Neighborhood Rebels

Chapter 1 Introduction Community Organizing, Grassroots Politics, and Neighborhood Rebels: Local Struggles for Black Power in America

Chapter 2 Malcolm X’s Harlem and Early Black Power Activism

Chapter 3 “Get Up Off of Your Knees!”: Competing Visions of Black Empowerment in Milwaukee during the Early Civil Rights Era

Chapter 4 Black Power on the Ground: Continuity and Rupture in St. Louis

Chapter 5 A Campus Where Black Power Won: Merritt College and the Hidden History of Oakland’s Black Panther Party

Chapter 6 “W-A-L-K-O-U-T!”: High School Students and the Development of Black Power in L.A.

Chapter 7 “We Were Going to Fight Fire with Fire”: Black Power in the South

Chapter 8 Empowerment, Consciousness, Defense: The Diverse Meanings of the Black Power Movement in Louisville, Kentucky

Chapter 10 Militant Katrina: Looking Back at Black Power

Chapter 11 The Pursuit of Audacious Power: Rebel Reformers and Neighborhood Politics in Baltimore, 1966–1968