1st Edition

Black 1968

Edited By Timothy H. Parsons Copyright 2025
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Initially, the 1960s was a time of understandable optimism. The civil rights movement and the legislation it inspired suggested an end to institutionalized racism in the United States, while in the Global South, the emergence of independent states anticipated political liberation and increased prosperity. So, when racial discrimination, entrenched privilege, cold war politics, and fiscal reality... Read more

Chapter 1

Introduction

Timothy H. Parsons

 

Chapter 2

‘We Are Not White. We Don’t Want to Be White’: Washington University’s Black Radical Awakening

Olivia Kerr

 

Chapter 3

The Great Memory: How St. Clair County Remembers Martin Luther King Jr.

Jeffrey Edison

 

Chapter 4

Melvin Van Peebles, James Brown, Frank Yerby and Some Observations about the Black 1968

Gerald Early

 

Chapter 5

Black 1968 and Palestine: Transnationalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Revolutionary Culture

Michael R. Fischback

 

Chapter 6

‘We Shall Overcome’ and Ireland: The Transatlantic Politics of a Protest Song

Daniel Geary and Jack Sheehan

 

Chapter 7

Black Power in Britain: An Indictment Against the 1968 Race Relations Act

Melanie R. Holmes

 

Chapter 8

How the Banning of Walter Rodney Led to the Birth of Bogle L’Ouverture Publications

Kadija George Sesay

 

Chapter 9

The Ideological Melting Pot of the Senegalese Rebels in 1968: Between Marxism, Fanonism and Pan-Africanism

Pascal Bianchini

 

Chapter 10

May 1968 and the Question of Africanization of the Educational System in Senegal

El Hadji Samba A. Diallo

 

Chapter 11

Black Enclaves after Reconstruction: Cultivating Collective Identity in Preparation for the Revolution of 1968

Geraldine Linnie Palmer

Biography

Timothy H. Parsons is a social historian holding joint appoints in the departments of History and African and African American Studies at Washington University.