Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement
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Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement

A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973

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  2. English
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Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement

A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973

About this book

The book examines how the coalition among the national African American civil rights organizations disintegrated between 1967 and 1973 as a result of the factionalism that splintered the groups from within as well as the federal government's sabotage of the Civil Rights Movement. Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 documents how factions within the movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known historian Christopher P. Lehman builds his case convincingly, utilizing his original research on the Movement's later years—a period typically overlooked and unexamined in the existing literature on the Movement. The book identifies how each civil rights group challenged poverty, violence, and discrimination differently from one another and describes how the federal government intentionally undermined civil rights organizations' efforts. It also shows how civil rights activists gravitated to political careers, explains the rising prominence of civil rights speakers to the Movement in the absence of political organizing by civil rights groups, and documents the Movement's influence upon Richard Nixon's presidency.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Old and New Movements
  5. Chapter 1 Violence Is Necessary
  6. Chapter 2 Open Season
  7. Chapter 3 Shocked and Saddened
  8. Chapter 4 Facing Annihilation
  9. Chapter 5 A Hanging Judge
  10. Chapter 6 Manifesto
  11. Chapter 7 No Peace in This Land
  12. Chapter 8 Heads-Up Murder
  13. Chapter 9 Times Have Changed
  14. Chapter 10 The Revolutionary Army
  15. Chapter 11 Same Old Thing
  16. Chapter 12 Run by Dictators
  17. Chapter 13 Explode All over the Landscape
  18. Chapter 14 Nation Time
  19. Chapter 15 Groovin' on Democracy
  20. Chapter 16 Their Most Vulnerable, Hopeless Position
  21. Chapter 17 Kicking the Blacks Around
  22. Chapter 18 The Movement of the Seventies
  23. Epilogue: Leaders without a Movement
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index