Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140) and index.
Contents:
There will be trouble -- A good fight in Chattanooga -- SNCC Kids and the 'Bad Nigra' -- Changed lives in Mississippi -- Good relations gone bad -- An end to nonviolence? -- It's time to come together -- 'You'll get yourself killed' -- Black Panthers don't back up -- A blueprint for Black Power -- Brothers with firepower -- 'Nonviolence is irrelevant' -- A new chairman of SNCC -- 'What we need is Black Power' -- Self-defeating extremism? -- Negroes with guns -- 'We have another weapon' -- Keeping Willie Ricks in check -- Going wild for Black Power -- Let's put up this tent -- Lashing out at whites -- The murderers around him -- A scene from hell -- 'This will be a new day.'
Summary:
"Dr Martin Luther King Jr. called Willie Ricks a 'fiery' advocate of Black Power during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He was everywhere. Stirring up crowds. Stirring up trouble. A close associate of Stokely Carmichael, Ricks was one of the movement's most militant, fearless, charismatic and effective organizers: the brains and brawn behind countless sit-ins, marches, demonstartions and boycotts throughout the South. He has described his life as a series of 'beatings, bombings, shootings, fights and assassinations.' This is his story -- and the story of others like him who played a critical role in advancing the notion of Black Power and, in the process, touching off a firestorm of fear-mongering in white America and a revolution in the way that African Americans perceived themselves and their struggle."--Back cover.
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