A history of black independent schools as the forge for black nationalism and a vanguard for black sovereignty in the 1960s and 70s.

• Introduction: Rethinking Education, Black Power and the Radical Imagination


• Ch 1 Community Control and the Struggle for Black Education in the 1960s


• Ch 2 Black Studies and the Politics of "Relevance"


• Ch 3 The Evolution of Movement Schools


• Ch 4 African Restoration and the Politics of Culture


• Ch 5 The Maturation of Pan African Nationalism


• Ch 6 The Black University and the "Total Community"


• Ch 7 The End of Illusions


• Epilogue


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Russell Rickford is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Betty Shabazz: Surviving Malcolm X, the co-author of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, and the editor of Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader.