Black Power Panel

“Black power represents one of the most enduring and controversial stories of racial tumult, social protest, and political upheaval of our time, complete with a cast of tragic and heroic historical characters: Black Muslims, FBI agents, Martin Luther King Jr., Black Panthers, Carmichael, Lyndon B. Johnson, the New Left, and Fidel Castro all play major and minor parts in the era this movement helped define. Black power’s reach was global, spanning continents and crossing oceans.”

– Peniel Joseph,

The Chronicle Review 2006

Panel Participants:

• Prof. Robyn Spencer, History, Lehman College
  • The Black Panther Party’s Evolution in Oakland (work in progress)
• Prof. Christopher Strain, American Studies, Florida Atlantic University
  • Pure Fire: Self?Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era
• Prof. Rhonda Williams, History, Case Western Reserve University, The
  • Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles Against Urban Inequality
• Prof. Yohuru Williams, African American History, Fairfield University,
  • Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven

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Sponsored by Black Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Political Science, the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, the Black Cultural Center, and the Dean’s Office for Multicultural Affairs

contact:  Anna Everetts, Programs Office, Swarthmore College, aeveret1@swarthmore.edu