TY - BOOK AU - Conyers,James L. TI - Engines of the Black power movement: essays on the influence of civil rights actions, arts, and Islam SN - 0786425407 (softcover : alk. paper) U1 - 305.896073 21E PY - 2007/// CY - Jefferson, N.C. PB - McFarland & Co. KW - Black power KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - Civil rights movements KW - Politics and government KW - Intellectual life KW - Black Arts movement KW - Black Muslims KW - Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) N1 - Index; Notes bibliogr; The spiral group : defining African American art during the civil rights movement / Sharon Pruitt -- Jazz musicians in Europe : 1919 to 1945 / Larry Ross -- Black power, Chicago politics, and social movements : what have we learned? / Elice Rogers -- A critical assessment of the educational mission and praxis of the Black Arts movement / Andrew P. Smallwood -- The Congressional Black Caucus : Black power realized? / Tanya Y. Price -- Us, Kawaida and the Black liberation movement in the 1960s : culture, knowledge and struggle / Maulana Karenga -- The Black arts movement in Omaha, Nebraska / Alonzo N. Smith -- The role of the Africana writer in an era of struggle : the case of Hoyt W. Fuller and the Black Arts movement, 1961-1981 : a Kawaida-location analysis / Amir M. Abdurahman -- The Nation of Islam : an historiography of pan-Africanist thought and intellectualism / James L. Conyers, Jr -- Understanding Elijah Muhammad / Malachi Crawford -- Noble Drew Ali : an historical perspective / Emerson Mungin -- Islam in the civil rights movement / Saadi A. Simawe -- Pathologies of public housing : an antecedent to crime and delinquency / James Chambers -- Constitutionalism within the political ideologies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. / Otis B. Grant -- Revising the best western view : civil rights, wilderness, and racial relocation / Steve Andrews -- Guilt by association : women as participants and victims of lynching / Martin D. Lovett N2 - "Have civil rights for African Americans been furthered, or maintained, in the decades since the Civil Rights movement began? The movement is perceived as having regressed, with issues hidden. With a view to assessing losses and gains, this collection of 17 essays examines the evolution and perception of the African American civil rights movement from inception through today"--Provided by publisher ER -