Table of Contents

Context * Introduction * Toward Understanding Uprising * Rising Up * Death in the Afternoon, Evening, and Morning * Fire/Guns * The Hearing Children of Deaf Parents Conflict * Black Scare * Iron Fist Impact * The Old Leadership * The New Leadership * The State and Civil Society Class Versus Class * A Class Divided by Race * Right, Left, and Center * Politics: Local and Beyond * Business * Representing Rebellion Meanings * After the Fire * Epilogue: the 1990s

About the Author

Gerald Horne has taught at the University of Zimbabwe and the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Black Liberation/Red Scare, Race for the Planet, and Black and Red: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War.