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good book. Nothing in particular slaps you in the face, and it would be good to have some passing familiarity with a variety of events in this Era to have the text make sense, but generally the book is trying to push back against Simplistic charactures of the black power Era.
It was neither a romantic Era of perfect unity or a dystopian fracturing of pristine multiracial coalitions, Nor are its beginning and ending nearly as clear as are typically ascribed, The author is all but saying "No, . Black power

didn't not start with Stokely, and Black feminisms engagements with it did not start at the comabhee River collective", despite academic orthodoxy promoting these Simplistic stories that try to lock Black power, and it's advocates, into a box.
Important read, even if it raises more questions than it answers, Rhonda Williams describes how and why the idea/term/movement of black power took root in the United States and where that idea led the Civil Rights Movement.
This work is important to our understanding of black power and how this idea has affected political engagement, Black power became an important centralizing idea for many people involved in the Civil Rights Movement and this work provides historians and students of history with a history about the importance of this term and an analysis of its work within the Civil Rights Movement.
Between thes ands, Black Power coalesced as activists advocated a more oppositional approach to fighting racial oppression, emphasizing racial pride, asserting black political, cultural, and economic autonomy, and challenging white power.
In Concrete Demands, Rhonda Y, Williams provides a rich, deeply researched history that sheds new light on this important social and political movement, and shows that the era of expansive Black Power politics that emerged in thes had long roots and diverse trajectories within theth century.


Looking at the struggle from the grassroots level, Williams highlights the role of ordinary people as well as more famous historical actors, and demonstrates that women activists were central to Black Power.
Vivid and highly readable, Concrete Demands is a perfect introduction to Black Power in the twentieth century for anyone interested in the history of black liberation movements.
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