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Explores business development in the Black Power era and the
centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement.
The Business of Black Power emphasizes the centrality of economic
goals to the larger black freedom movement and explores the myriad
forms of business development in the Black power era. This volume
charts a new course forBlack power studies and business history,
exploring both the business ventures that Black power fostered and
the impact of Black power on the nation's business world. Black
activists pressed business leaders, corporations, and various
levels of government into supporting a range of economic
development ventures, from Black entrepreneurship, to grassroots
experiments in economic self-determination, to indigenous attempts
to rebuild inner-city markets in thewake of disinvestment. They
pioneered new economic and development strategies, often in concert
with corporate executives and public officials. Yet these same
actors also engaged in fierce debates over the role of business in
strengthening the movement, and some African Americans outright
rejected capitalism or collaboration with business. The seven
scholars in this collection bring fresh analysis to this complex
intersection of African Americanand business history to reveal how
Black power advocates, or those purporting a Black power agenda,
engaged business to advance their economic, political, and social
goals. They show the business of Black power taking place in the
streets, boardrooms, journals and periodicals, corporations,
courts, and housing projects of America. In short, few were left
untouched by the influence of this movement. Laura Warren Hill is
assistant professor of history at Bloomfield College. Julia Rabig
is a lecturer at Dartmouth College.
Explores business development in the Black power era and the
centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement.
The Business of Black Power emphasizes the centrality of economic
goals to the larger black freedom movement and explores the myriad
forms of business development in the Black power era. This volume
charts a new course forBlack power studies and business history,
exploring both the business ventures that Black power fostered and
the impact of Black power on the nation's business world. Black
activists pressed business leaders, corporations, and various
levels of government into supporting a range of economic
development ventures, from Black entrepreneurship, to grassroots
experiments in economic self-determination, to indigenous attempts
to rebuild inner-city markets in thewake of disinvestment. They
pioneered new economic and development strategies, often in concert
with corporate executives and public officials. Yet these same
actors also engaged in fierce debates over the role of business in
strengthening the movement, and some African Americans outright
rejected capitalism or collaboration with business. The ten
scholars in this collection bring fresh analysis to this complex
intersection of African American and business history to reveal how
Black power advocates, or those purporting a Black power agenda,
engaged business to advance their economic, political, and social
goals. They show the business of Black power taking place in
thestreets, boardrooms, journals and periodicals, corporations,
courts, and housing projects of America. In short, few were left
untouched by the influence of this movement. Laura Warren Hill is
assistant professor of history at Bloomfield College. Julia Rabig
is a lecturer at Dartmouth College.
On July 24, 1964, chaos erupted in Rochester, New York. Strike the
Hammer examines the unrest-rebellion by the city's Black community,
rampant police brutality-that would radically change the trajectory
of the Civil Rights movement. After overcoming a violent response
by State Police, the fight for justice, in an upstate town rooted
in black power movements, was reborn. That resurgence owed much to
years of organizing and resistance in the community. Laura Warren
Hill examines Rochester's long Civil Rights history and, drawing
extensively on oral accounts of the northern, urban community,
offers rich and detailed stories of the area's protest tradition.
Augmenting oral testimonies with records from the NAACP, SCLC, and
the local FIGHT, Strike the Hammer paints a compelling picture of
the foundations for the movement. Now, especially, this story of
struggle for justice and resistance to inequality resonates. Hill
leads us to consider the social, political, and economic
environment more than fifty years ago and how that founding
generation of activists left its mark on present-day Rochester.
On July 24, 1964, chaos erupted in Rochester, New York. Strike the
Hammer examines the unrest-rebellion by the city's Black community,
rampant police brutality-that would radically change the trajectory
of the Civil Rights movement. After overcoming a violent response
by State Police, the fight for justice, in an upstate town rooted
in black power movements, was reborn. That resurgence owed much to
years of organizing and resistance in the community. Laura Warren
Hill examines Rochester's long Civil Rights history and, drawing
extensively on oral accounts of the northern, urban community,
offers rich and detailed stories of the area's protest tradition.
Augmenting oral testimonies with records from the NAACP, SCLC, and
the local FIGHT, Strike the Hammer paints a compelling picture of
the foundations for the movement. Now, especially, this story of
struggle for justice and resistance to inequality resonates. Hill
leads us to consider the social, political, and economic
environment more than fifty years ago and how that founding
generation of activists left its mark on present-day Rochester.
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