Empowering the Black masses: book chronicles civil rights, Black power movements in America's 'first capital.'.(Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia)(Book review)

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Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia By Matthew Countryman University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, 413 pp.

Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia joins a growing body of literature on the civil rights and Black power movements in the North that is radically challenging the way historians conceptualize those movements in particular and the post-World War II period generally. Chronicling the struggle for civil rights in a city rich in the icons of freedom, Matthew Countryman skillfully illuminates how America's first capital and "cradle of ...

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