Black Power was one of the key political struggles of the American 20th Century. Its cultural legacy and political thought has echoed through the decades - including recent Black Lives Matter protests. Beginning with the folk-narratives told through song by slaves in the plantations, through the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, the era of Malcolm X, the African-American art and fashion of the sixties, soul music and politics in the 1970s and the techno scene of Detroit, Black Power and the American People is a comprehensive cultural history of the movement.
