Say Burgin a 20th century historian of the United States with specializations in radical politics, social movements, gender and African American history. Her book Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit offers the first comprehensive analysis of how white activists in the 1960s and 1970s responded to Black Power’s mandate for white people to organize in white communities. It debunks the myth that Black Power “purged” white people from the freedom struggle, showing instead…
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Organizing Your Own
Organizing Your Own offers a new way of seeing Black Power’s relationship to white America. It is the first comprehensive study of white activists’ solidarity with the Black Power movement.
In the mid-1960s, as the politics of Black self-determination gained steam, Black activists had a new message for white activists: Go into your own communities and organize white people against racism. Continue Reading >
