In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean--people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers across the country--raising state security fears about Montreal as the new hotbed of international Black radical politics.
- ISBN10 1771130105
- ISBN13 9781771130103
- Publish Date 27 May 2013
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Between the Lines
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English