Black Nationalism

by Charles George

Book Overview

With its intellectual roots tracing back to Marcus Garvey's efforts to promote self-determination and economic security in the 1920s, black nationalism attempted to promote community, identity, and economic power for African Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Many adherents felt that African Americans would eventually have to found their own nation, rather than assimilate to American culture, which was predominantly...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142050083X
• ISBN13: 9781420500837
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Lucent Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10