The black power revolt: a collection of essays.

296 Pages·1968·10.673 MB·English

by  Floyd B. Barbour

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EXTENDING HORIZONS BOOKS
Porter Sargent Publisher 11 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
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Copyright © 1968 by F. Porter Sargent
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-31432
Third Printing, September 1968
Selections reprinted in this collection are used by permission of
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copyright. For further information write to: Porter Sargent
Pubhsher, 11 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108.
EXTENDING HORIZONS BOOKS
W. H. Truitt, Co-Editor
Dept, of Philosophy, Suffolk University
PREFACE
EXTENDING HORIZONS BOOKS is a collection of writings on
social science and critical social philosophy. As a series it seeks
to overcome the dichotomy between theory and practice which is
characteristic of American social science, and which is revealed
in society by the incompatibihty between values and behavior.
Earlier titles in this series revive classic pioneering studies such
as Kropotkin’s MUTUAL AID and Sorokin’s SOCIAL AND
CULTURAL DYNAMICS. Tracing the forward movement of
social theory, we have presented, for example, works on Toynbee
and Georges Gurvitch.
To bring this spirit of rational criticism as an instrument for
democratic social progress into the present moment, we present
this collection of essays written by people concerned publicly and
privately with Black Power.
W. H. T.
Boston, 1968
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
The Black Power Revolt is a report of the Editor’s findings in a
year of enquiry. The forces of flux and convergence are real¬
istically examined. It is hoped that this work wiU aid under¬
standing and inspire continuing study by those within and without
Black Power.
If it furthers the social dialogue and helps to clear the way for
freedom of action appropriate to a democracy, the pubhsher’s
aims will have been fulfilled.
F.P.S.
Boston, 1968
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For permission to reprint copyrighted material the following
acknowledgments are gratefully made to:
Yale University Press, publishers, for the poem “Since 1619”
which appeared in For My People by Margaret Walker. (Copy¬
right © 1942 by Yale University Press.)
Dr. Herbert Aptheker, author of A Documentary History
of the Negro People in the United States, published by Citadel
Press, for selections appearing on pp. 23-5, 28, 93-7, 119-125,
226-233, 402-5, 451-4, 655, 656-7 and 753 of that book,
here included in Section I: Black Power Through History.
(Copyright © 1951 by Herbert Aptheker.)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and A.
Whitney Ellsworth, publisher of the New York Review of
Books, for “Power and Racism” by Stokely Carmichael, from
New York Review of Books, September 22, 1966. (Copyright
© 1966 by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.)
Scientific American, Inc., publishers of Scientific American,
for “The Social Power of the Negro” by James P. Comer,
April 1967. (Copyright© 1967 by Scientific American, Inc.)
The Christian Century Foundation, publishers of The
Christian Century, and Mr. Kyle Haselden, Editor of that
journal, for “Black Power and the American Christ”, by
Vincent Harding, The Christian Century, January 4, 1967.
(Copyright © 1942 by The Christian Century Foundation.)
The National Medical Association, Inc., publishers of the
Journal of the National Medical Association, and W. Montague
Cobb, Editor of that journal, for “The Negro American: His