Narratives of Citizenship and Race since Emancipation

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.04.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background Information
  3. Demographics
  4. Objectives
  5. Rationale
  6. Strategies
  7. Historical Content Information
  8. Works Cited
  9. Recommended YouTube Videos

Putting Both Fists in the Air: The Addition of Women's Voices to the Black Power Era, 1960s-70s

Sydney Hunt Coffin

Published September 2012

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Works Cited

Clarke, Cheryl. "After Mecca": women poets and the Black Arts Movement. New

Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Collins, Gail. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women

From 1960 to the Present. New York, Boston, London: Littel, Brown and Company,

2009.

Countryman, Matthew. Up south: civil rights and Black power in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Deburg, William L.. New day in Babylon: the Black power movement and American

culture, 1965-1975. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Gates, Henry Louis . The Norton anthology of African American literature. New York:

Norton, 1997.

Gore, Dayo F., Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard. Want to start a revolution?:

radical women in the Black freedom struggle. New York: New York University Press,

2009.

Harper, Michael S., and Anthony Walton. The Vintage book of African American poetry:

200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 50 outstanding poets.

New York: Vintage Books, 2000.

Hayden, Robert Earl. Kaleidoscope; poems by American Negro poets,. [1st ed. New

York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.

Jordan, June. Soulscript: a collection of African American poetry. New York: Harlem

Moon, 2004.

Marable, Manning, and Leith Mullings. Let nobody turn us around: voices of resistance,

reform, and renewal : an African American anthology. 2nd ed. Lanham: Rowman &

Littlefield, 2009.

Neal, Larry. "The Black Arts Movement." The Drama review 12, no. 4 (1968): 28-39.

http://www.jstor.org.stable/1144377 (accessed August 17, 2012).

Perkins, Margo V.. Autobiography as activism: three Black women of the Sixties.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

Randall, Dudley. The Black poets a new anthology. New York: Bantam Books, 1971.

Sanchez, Sonia. I've been a woman: new and selected poems. Chicago, Il.: Third World Press, 19851978.

Thomas, Bettye, and V. P. Franklin. "Black Women and Black Power: The Case of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee by Cynthia Griggs Fleming." In Sisters in the struggle: African American women in the civil rights-black power movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001. 197-213.

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