History Of Equal Right For Blacks

Introduction

The impact of the Black Power Movement in the United States has been vastly under-estimated in both the scholarly literature on movement outcomes as well as in popular understanding. This is in part due to the way that social movement scholars conceptualize institutionalization largely as a process of bringing movements into the state. This, however, ignores the ways that movements get brought into other institutions. Organized black activists encountered political repression at the local, national, and international level. Yet the movements impact on American history, its successes, failures, and shortcomings, as well as it contemporary legacy, ...