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Matthew Countryman writes, quote,

historians of Black Power have tended to depict the movement as consisting of a series of pronouncements from national figures like Stokely Carmichael and A-trap Brown,

Huey Newton and Malana Corringa, Angela Davis and Kathleen Cleaver.

Similarly, conventional accounts of the period of civil rights struggle that preceded black powers rise are often stripped down to a set of

iconic figures and moments.

Mostly in the 1950s and 60s, mostly in the 1950s and 60s, mostly in the deep south.

But what countrymen shows is that the Black Freedom struggle was both long in time and nationwide in scope, and more specifically, that Black struggle was

for decades an explosive and dynamic force at the center of Philadelphia politics.

National politics in general and the southern movement in particular of course loomed large

and they powerfully shaped local movements.

But local movements in cities like Philly were also profoundly just that.

Local.

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