Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People : history and memory / Michael Simanga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simanga, Michael, 1954- author.

Series:

Contemporary Black history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Congress of African Peoples--History.

Congress of African Peoples.

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

National liberation movements.

History.

African American political activists.

United States.

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.

Baraka, Amiri.

Simanga, Michael, 1954-.

Simanga, Michael.

African American political activists--Biography.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

National liberation movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 191 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230112155

0230112153

OCLC:

755699225

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