We're gonna take a look at Dr. King's analysis of Black Power in his final book "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" in order to better contextualize his own relationship to the movement as an organizer, because his thought/memory would have a major place at the Gary convention, and finally because, as an extended statement from a major civil rights leader it gives us an excellent opportunity to meditate constructively on Black Power's place in the broader Black Freedom Struggle.

Works consulted or mentioned:

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.
 Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth Stampp
Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward

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Partial List of Works Consulted

Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP by Yvonne Ryan

Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power

The NAACP, Black Power, and the African American Freedom Struggle, 1966–1969 (journal article) by Simon Hall

Radio Free Dixie by Timothy Tyson

Social Movement Organizations and Response to Environmental Change: The NAACP, 1960-1973

Position Statement on Black Power by the National Committee of Negro Churchmen

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We’re gonna take a look at the moment the Black Power movement was born, in 1966 on a hot summer day in Greenwood, Mississippi, in order to get a sense of the forces that intersected at that moment amid tensions within the Civil Rights Movement. The reason we’re starting here is to set the stage for understanding the Civil Rights Movements response to Black Power, in order to better appreciate the sociopolitical context in which the Gary Project arose.

Works consulted: 

Down to the crossroads: Civil Rights, Black power, and the Meredith March Against Fear by Aram Goudsouzian 

In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s by Clayborne Carson

Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour by Peniel Joseph

Stokely: A Life by Peniel Joseph

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–1968 by Taylor Branch

Bloody Lowndes: Civil RIghts and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt by Hasan Jefferies

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