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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. Trouey-Newton

and Malana Caringa, 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 Deep South.

But what countrymen shows is that the Black Freedom Struggle

was both long in time and nationwide in scope,

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