The Black Muslims and the Negro American's Quest for Communion
A Case Study in the Genesis of Negro Protest Movements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5634052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard M Kaplan, Howard Kaplan (0000-0003-0907-6127, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 164 |
| Publication date | 1969-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/588527 |
| OpenAlex | W2319227593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
So speaks the Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, the Philadelphia minister who founded that city's Opportunities Industrialization Centre, in his rebuttal to those who preach 'black power'. The statement is significant because (i) it pinpoints the two socially significant poles of this endlessly defined concept, an understanding of the action implications of which is probably the crisis in America today. (2) It is also significant because the public image of the speaker contrasts so vividly with the images of two other individuals who made ostensibly equivalent statements
Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1971 - 1971 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |