A revised and expanded edition of Ali's important history of how African Americans have created independent and third-party movements to expand democracy.
Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean offers a rare look at an individual who began in obscurity in eastern Africa and reached the highest levels of South Asian political and military affairs in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organised a movement in the US South for economic and political reform: Black Populism. Between 1886 and 1900, tens of thousands of black farmers, sharecroppers, and agrarian workers created their own organisations and tactics primarily under black leadership. The movement's legacy remains as the largest independent black political movement until the rise of the modern civil r...
African Americans have long been part of independent political movements and have used third parties to advance some of the most important changes in the United States, notably the abolition of slavery, the extension of voting rights, and the advancement of civil rights. "In the Balance of Power "presents a history and analysis of African American third-party movements that can help us better understand the growing diversity among black voters...
A history of the alliance between black farmers, sharecroppers, and the People's Party Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement--distinct from the white Populist movement--in the South and parts of the Midwest for economic and political reform: Black Populism. Between 1886 and 1900, tens of thousands of black farmers, sharecroppers, and agrarian workers created their own organizations and tactics...
