The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972

Event Status
Scheduled
Cover of Dr. Moore's book The Defeat of Black Power

An intense and revealing history, Dr. Leonard N. Moore’s The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 provides the first in-depth evaluation of a critical moment in American history.

For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black Power leaders gathered at the National Black Political Convention, hoping to end a years-long feud that divided black America into two distinct camps: integrationists and separatists.  While some form of this rift existed within black politics long before the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his death―and the power vacuum it created―heightened tensions between the two groups, and convention leaders sought to merge these competing ideologies into a national, unified call to action. What followed, however, effectively crippled the Black Power movement and fundamentally altered the political strategy of civil rights proponents.

Lunch will be served.

Date and Time
Nov. 6, 2018, All Day
Location
Bass Lecture Hall