Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Black Power? Chapter 2: The Ceremony of Innocence Chapter 3: The Devil is White Chapter 4: You Can't Say Black Power Chapter 5: The Panther is a Black Cat Chapter 6: A Dream Deferred

About the Author

Hettie V. Williams completed her graduate work in history at Monmouth University. She has subsequently taught courses on U.S. history, the history of African Americans, and Gender Studies. Currently, she teaches as a lecturer of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University.

Reviews

Written with the finesse of an Angelou and the rage of a Giovanni this passionate, revisionist, historical, scholarship will challenge its readers to ask new questions about the nature, role, rise and decline of the Black Revolt of the 1960s. Hettie V. Williams has raised the bar in her narrative and deconstruction of the impact of major voices and organizations involved in the African American quest for freedom, justice, and equality. The advocates for Civil Rights and Black Power are examined thoroughly here. The author is not only scholarly in her approach to narrating the story, but candid and provocative; her voice is a timely and important contribution to the study of American history, Black activism, and Black intellectual thought.
*Michael N. Nash, Professor of African American History, Essex County College, Division of Humanities/Department of History, Author, Islam among U*

To the many social and political histories of the American Civil Rights Movement, Williams adds a pyscho-intellectual history, focusing especially on how contrasting calls for integration and separation signaled and deepened a division in black identity that the movement was ultimately unable to prevent or heal. She uses the metaphor of nervous breakdown and a topical-chronological format to place the movement during the years 1962-68 within the larger historical framework of the African American struggle for freedom.
*Reference and Research Book News, February 2010*

We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun is one of the best books ever produced on the American Civil Rights Movement between 1962 and 1968. With strong analysis and adopting a psycho-intellectual approach, the book is enriching with the original words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In this well researched, well organized, and well written book, Hettie V. Williams has successfully brought to historical limelight various interpretations of Black identity emergent in the 1960s. She has critically analyzed the major organizations and key personalities in the struggle for Black freedom in America. The book will be of great interest to general readers interested in recent American history and to students of history and political science.
*Dr. Julius O. Adekunle, Associate Professor of History, Department of History and Anthropology, Monmouth University, Author, Culture and Customs of Rwan*