"The essays ... originally appeared in Trans-action magazine."

Second ed. published in 1973 under title: Black experience: the transformation of activism.

Includes bibliographies.

Introduction, by A. Meier.--On the case of Resurrection City, by C. Hunter.--Rent strikes, by M. Lipsky.--Sniping, by T. A. Knopf.--Confrontation at Cornell, by W. H. Friedland and H. Edwards.--The making of the Negro mayors, 1967, by J. K. Hadden, L. H. Masotti, and V. Thiessen.--Black power at the ballot box, by A. Meier.--What Black power means to Negroes in Mississippi, by J. Ladner.--Some reservations about Black power, by D. Riesman.--The significance of "soul", by U. Hannerz.