Black Liberation in the Midwest

This book offers a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights Movement scholarship - scholarship that continues to ignore the city of St. Louis and the Black liberation struggle that took place there. Jolly examines this local movement and organizations such as the Black Liberators Mid-City Congress Jeff Vander Lou Community Action Group DuBois Club CORE Zulu 1200s and the Nation of Islam to illuminate the larger Black liberation struggle in the Midwest in the mid- and late 1960s. Furthermore this work details the larger atmosphere and conditions in St. Louis Missouri and the Midwest from which this local movement developed and operated.This work raises important questions about periodizing and locating Black liberation and Black Nationalism. As racial oppression in the United States was equated with neo-colonialism and internal-colonialism this discussion reveals the global nature of white supremacy race and class oppression and exploitation as well as the material and ideological relationship between local and transnational liberation movements.