We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun: The Collapse of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Revolt (1962-1968) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761843535)

We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun uses the metaphor of a nervous breakdown to critique the collapse of the American Civil Rights Movement from a historical perspective. Focusing on the years 1962 to 1968, using a topical chronological approach, this work seeks to discuss the major organizations and personalities central to the African American freedom struggle in the 1960s with an emphasis on the debate over the meaning, the means, and the attainment of 'black power.' The five major national groups that made up the civil rights coalition ultimately divided and "broke-down" as concerns of strategy and methodology were compounded by questions of black identity. A nuanced interpretive psycho-intellectual history such as this seeks to redefine our understanding of the American Civil Rights Movement altogether.

Author: Hettie V. Williams
ISBN-10: 0761843531
ISBN-13: 9780761843535
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2008
Pages: 124
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 68