1. The thick historical scholarship on the Civil Rights movement has failed to seriously explore black radicals who existed during this era. Even accounting for the Southern focus of this literature does not explain the failure for most scholars to explore the black militancy that existed side by side (sometimes within single organizations) with the mainstream movement. Two exceptions are Timothy Tyson's case study of Monroe, North Carolina and Yohuru Williams's study of New Haven, Connecticut. See Timothy B. Tyson,Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1999); and Yohuru Williams,Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven(New York: Brandywine Press, 2000).
2. The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in works published by, and about, 1960s based black political radicals. Examples will be discussed throughout this essay.