What is it about?
Peniel's full-scale biography is intended to raise Stokely Carmichael to a level with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in the black freedom struggle. The review examines the merits of this approach.
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Why is it important?
The new Black Power scholarship is changing movement scholarship but it needs to avoid some of the failings of the earlier phase when charismatic individuals were emphasised.
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This page is a summary of: Does the Movement Need a King?, Journal of American Studies, March 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0021875816000013.
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