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Book Review
Canada and the United States
Leonard N. Moore. Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2002. Pp. 242. $34.95.
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In the last decade, American historians have started wrestling in earnest with the difficult topic of black power. Leonard N. Moore makes an important contribution in this much-needed examination of the political career of Carl B. Stokes, the first black mayor of a major American city, and what it can tell us about the rise of black political power in the late 1960s and 1970s. |
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