<p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p>

Introduction: community organizing, grassroots politics, and neighborhood rebels : local struggles for Black power in America / Peniel E. Joseph -- Malcolm X's Harlem and early Black power activism / Peniel E. Joseph -- "Get up off of your knees!" : competing visions of Black empowerment in Milwaukee during the early civil rights era / Patrick D. Jones -- Black power on the ground : continuity and rupture in St. Louis / Clarence Lang -- A campus where Black power won : Merritt College and the hidden history of Oakland's Black Panther Party / Donna Murch -- "'W-A-L-K-O-U-T!" : high school students and the development of Black power in L.A. / Jeanne Theoharis -- "'We were going to fight fire with fire" : Black power in the South / Simon Wendt -- Empowerment, consciousness, defense : the diverse meanings of the Black power movement in Louisville, Kentucky / Tracy E. K'Meyer -- The Black arts movement in Atlanta / James Smethurst -- Militant Katrina : looking back at Black power / Kent B. Germany -- The pursuit of audacious power : rebel reformers and neighborhood politics in Baltimore, 1966-1968 / Rhonda Y. Williams.