A view from the East : black cultural nationalism and education in New York City
In 1969, The East, a cultural and educational center for people of African ancestry, was founded by dedicated educators and progressive activists who came of age during the era of the Black Power movement. This title provides archival research of the organization within the African American civil rights and black power movements.
eBook, English, ©2009
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y., ©2009
History
1 online resource (xxxiv, 209 pages) : illustrations
9780815651017, 0815651015
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Ujima: context and community control
Nia: the birth of the East organization
Ujamaa: enterprises of the East
Kujichagulia: Uhuru Sasa Shule (freedom now school)
Kuumba: the International African Arts Festival
Imani: the challenge of continuity and the East legacy
Epilogue: the East family at present
First edition published as Truth Crushed to the Earth Will Rise Again: The East Organization and the Principles and Practice of Black Nationalist Development by Kwasi Konadu (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005)