Mainstreaming Black Power

327 Pages·2017·2.573 MB·English

by  Tom Adam Davies

Mainstreaming Black Power
Tom Adam Davies
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of
the African American Studies Endowment Fund of the
University of California Press Foundation, which was
established by a major gift from the George Gund Foundation.
Mainstreaming Black Power

Mainstreaming Black Power
Tom Adam Davies
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
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© 2017 by Tom Adam Davies
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Davies, Tom Adam, 1983– author.
Title: Mainstreaming black power / Tom Adam Davies.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifi ers: lccn 2016046168 (print) | lccn 2016046784 (ebook) |
isbn 9780520292109 (cloth : alk. paper) | isbn 9780520292116
(pbk. : alk. paper) | isbn 9780520965645 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Black power—United States—History—20th century. |
African American political activists—History—20th century. | African
Americans—Politics and government—20th century.
Classifi cation: lcc E185.615 .D3854 2017 (print) | lcc E185.615 (ebook) |
ddc 323.1196/0730904—dc23
lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016046168
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
1 (cid:129) “A Mouthful of Civil Rights and an Empty Belly”:
Th e War on Poverty and the Fight for Racial Equality 13
2 (cid:129) Community Development Corporations, Black Capitalism,
and the Mainstreaming of Black Power 58
3 (cid:129) Black Power and Battles over Education 114
4 (cid:129) Black Mayors and Black Progress: Th e Limits of
Black Political Power 168
Conclusion 218
Epilogue 225
Notes 237
Bibliography 281
Index 301
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