Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers

Reappraising the rise of the civil rights movement in the iconic center of Northern Black life

Unleashing Black Power explores the local dynamics, national connections, and global context of the Black freedom movement in Harlem from 1954 to 1964, illuminating how activists, organizers, and ordinary people mounted their resistance to systemic racism in the Jim Crow North. The richness of Black radical thought and action in this period made Harlem a key battleground in the national civil right...