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Article: 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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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
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- February 8, 2007
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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 liberty" left much to be desired in the arena of Black civil rights.
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