INDEX
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Abbott, Andrew, 145
absences, strategic, 160
activism: M. Berry on, 153; of black professional associations, 178; definition of, 87; outside of social movement organizations, 70; in professions, 174, 175; of UCC, 114
activists: IOSM, 158; and NCSW, 154; organizing within institutions, 167; recruiting, 166
activists, black, organizational structure for, 151
Adams, James, 110
Addams, Jane, 69, 72, 73, 75, 77, 153; and African American uplift, 154; role in civil rights movement of, 83
adoption, transracial, 4, 147–48; alternatives to, 137; and best interest of children, 138; and black expertise, 145; discourse on, 169; pressure for, 136–37
adoption agencies, 136, 137
adoptions, international, 137
advocacy work, of NFS, 77–78
affirmative action, 51
affirmative action standard, of CSWE, 129
African American, use of term, 191n1
African Americans: CSWE task force for, 129–30; degree-holding, 121; education data for, 49–50; employment rates for, 50; excluded from professional associations, 52; impact of Black Power movement on, 25; intelligence testing for, 57; mainstream, ix; and NCSW 1968 conference, 123; racial loyalty of, 138; in social work profession, 16, 67; strategic absences of, 160; and unequal power relations, 157; in white collar jobs, 146. See also social workers, black
African American teachers organization, 40
Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, xiii
Alexander, Sandra Carlton, 17
Alinsky, Saul, 101, 102
Alinsky organizations, 80
Allen, Loma, 82, 94
American Anthropological Association (AAA), 60
American Association of State Social Work Boards, 134–35
American Indians, CSWE task force for, 129
American Library Association (ALA): Black Caucus of, 58–59; Statement of Concern presented to, 59
American Psychological Association (APA), ABPsi demands presented to, 55–57
American Sociological Association (ASA): CBS caucus of, 58; criteria for acceptance of papers of, 58; resolutions of black sociologists submitted to, 57–58
Aminzade, Ronald, 108, 166
Andrews, Kenneth, 192–93n14
anger: focus on black, 164; white, 173. See also emotions
anthropologists, black professional associations for, 60–61
antipoverty programs, of Great Society, 17–18, 22
anti-riot bill, 40
archival sources, 186–87
Asian Americans, CSWE task force for, 129
Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA), 60, 65
Association of Black Catalysts, 119; in Chicago, 125; Code of Ethics of, 120, 121; standards of, 120–21. See also National Association of Black Social Workers
Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi), 55; logos of, 64
Association of Black Sociologists (ABS), on Trayvon Martin case, 177–78. See also Caucus of Black Sociologists
Atlanta School of Social Work, 17
Austin, John, 95, 96, 108–9, 110
 
Baker, Ella, 33
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 42
Barnes, Sandra, 178
Barrett, Janie Porter, 16–17
Bates, Louis, 122–23, 125
Batiste-Roberts, Gloria, 177, 178
Beck, Bertram, 111
beloved community, 32–33, 162
Benson, J. Kenneth, 68
Berkeley School of Social Welfare (BSSW), charges of discrimination at, 126
Berry, Edwin C., 105
Berry, Margaret, 82, 86, 96, 97, 163, 195n17; and black associate director, 99–101; and Cincinnati conference, 108; commitment to integration of, 111; on community control, 105; and H. Gans’s article, 102; on NFS Black Caucus, 107; on NFS leadership, 110; at 1968 NFS conference, 109; on 1969 NCSW annual forum, 117–18; resignation of, 100; on Techni-Culture Conference, 95; work in Pittsburgh’s Hill district, 153
Berry, Phillip, 134
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 17
Better, Shirley, 2, 119, 122, 126, 136, 148, 185, 187
Big Five, x
“Bill of Rights, Black,” 62
Biondi, Martha, 26
black, use of term, xi, 144, 191n1
black activists, and NFS, 107
black capitalism initiative, 43
Black Caucus Journal, 125, 138, 139
Black Caucus of American Library Association (BCALA), 58–59
Black Caucus of NFS: demands and proposals of, 90, 91–93; position paper of, 92–93
Black Caucus of Settlement Workers, 20–21, 23. See also Techni-Culture Movement
black community, and NABSW, 141
black dissent, internal, 88
“black faces in higher places,” 37–39, 41, 97
black freedom movement, x, 191n2
black liberation movement: defined, 138; institutionalization of, 21, 192–93n14; makeup of, 27; periodization of, 27, 28; and redefinition of race, 9; studies of, 4; time period for, 7
black liberation movement and social welfare, 76–78; civil rights actions, 78–84; Mississippi Project, 85–87; with rapid social change, 84–85
Black Manifesto (Forman), 40–41
Black Metropolis (Drake and Clayton), 84
“Black Muslims,” xi
Black Panther Party, 22, 35–36, 58, 61, 63, 174; community self-help programs of, 36; health related social programs of, 26; manifesto of, 53–54
Black Power: black faces in higher places variety of, 41; and black professional associations, xii; challenges to NFS of, 102; and civil rights movement, ix, 26, 30; defined, 38, 43–44, 44; emergence of, 34–37, 37; in federal politics, 63; historiography of, 22; as ideological phenomenon, ix, xii–xiii; ideology of, 144–45; impact of, 25; in institutional spaces, 2–3; language of, 49; in mainstream organizations, 44; revisiting, 174–76; and SNCC radicalism, 34; sociological literature on, 26; white resistance to, 174
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (Carmichael and Hamilton), 37–38, 119, 199n3
Black Power activists, work of, 35
Black Power Conference, first national (1967), 39–41
Black Power conferences, 41
Black Power discourse, around social action, 76
Black Power era: American organizations during, 158; black professional associations during, 46, 174–75; black professional mobilization during, 18; black professional organizing in, 148; black rage and white guilt during, 163; gender dynamic of, 143; professional norms during, 139
Black Power movement, xiii, 3; in academic research, 25; and black middle class, 146–47; black organizing in, 168; and black professionalism, 121–22; and black professionals, 148, 149; and black social workers, 3, 15, 146; civil rights movement compared with, 37, 62–63; compared with IOSMS, 150–51, 150; effect on social work of, 22; focus on institutional racism of, 159; history of, 30–37; impacts of, 171–72; institutionalization of, 4; in international political environment, 36; long-term impacts of, 21; makeup of, 27; marginalization of, 171; “nation building” strain of, 43; and Nation of Islam, xi–xii; and NFS, 89; and NFS Black Caucus, 92–93; in organizational spaces, 2; political context shaped by, 38; popular conceptions of, 24; scholars of, 26; and settlements, 111–12; shift in focus of, 159; social work during, 66–69; state repression of, 36, 193n4; suppression of, 27–28; tactics of, 36, 37, 53; and Techni-Culture Movement, 113
Black Power studies, 25–26; subfields of, 193n1
The Black Sociologist, 58
black studies departments, 22, 26, 45; Afrocentric curricula in, 38–39
black studies movement, 29
black studies programs, demands for, 36–37
Black Task Force, CSWE, 130, 131
Body and Soul (Nelson), 26
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 10
Brabson, Vic, 1
Bradley, Stefan, 26
Brown, Andy, 94
Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 17
Brown, Rap, 43
Brown v. Board of Education, 6, 31, 75
Brunson, Herbert, 85–86
Burns, Andrea A., 26
 
Carlton-LaNey, Iris, 16, 17
Carmichael, Stokely (later Kwame Ture), 37–38, 40, 44, 93, 100, 145, 175, 194n2, 199n3; Black Power speech of, 34–35; on white responses to Black Power, 161
casework, 71; money management of, 73; role of, 74
caseworkers, 71
Catalysts, 115; Code of Ethics of, 135. See also Association of Black Catalysts
Caucus of Black Anthropologists, at AAA meeting, 60. See also Association of Black Anthropologists
Caucus of Black Sociologists (CBS), 58, 65. See also Association of Black Sociologists
charity agencies, 71
Chicanos, CSWE task force for, 129
Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM), 85
child rearing practices, 72
Child Welfare League, adoption standards of, 137
child welfare system, racism in, 179
Chisholm, Shirley, 62
Christian values, and civil rights movement, 32–33
Chunn, Jay, 119, 130, 135, 187
church, black, and civil rights movement, 32–33
Cincinnati Enquirer, 110
cities, inner, 74, 111. See also urban riots
civil disobedience, in Black Power movement, 36
civil institutionalization, 11, 14–15; of black liberation movement, 30; defined, 157
Civil Rights Act (1964), 33, 50
Civil Rights Act (1968), 33
civil rights activists, and public opinion, xi
civil rights era, 5; and racial structure of U.S., 7
civil rights leaders, and Black Power, ix
civil rights movement, xiii, 171; assimilationist approach of, 31–32; and black church, 32–33; and Black Power, xii, 30; and black professionals, 149; compared with Black Power movement, 37, 62–63; compared with IOSMS, 150–51, 150; direct action phase of, 31, 193n2; effect of Black Power on, 26; heroic period of, 31–34; integrationist goals of, 31; legal gains of, 13; and Nation of Islam, xi; and NFS, 89; outcomes of, 12; social work during, 66–69; and social work organizations, 22–23; Southern vs. Northern, 87; timeline of, 32
civil society: Black Power movement in, 28; race in, 5; racialized norms and practices in, 11; and ruling class, 8; use of term, 192n13
civil sphere, institutionalization of movements into, 158
Clarke, Cheryl, 143
Clay, Rep. William Lacy, 61
Cloward, Richard, 114, 199n3
Code of Ethics, of Catalysts, 135
code of ethics, of NABSW, 140–41
COINTELPRO, 37, 193n5
Colburn, Fern, 77
colonialism, internal, 61
Committee on Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Profession, of ASA, 58
community, black, as “research colony,” 57
Community Action Programs (CAPs), 45, 46, 51, 67; conflict around, 68; control over, 68; maximum feasible participation of, 67–68, 83; relative success of, 68; War on Poverty, 67
community chests: formation of, 72; reliance on, 73
community control: and settlement movement, 105; in settlements, 108
community programs, in Mississippi, 85
“Confab in Black,” 119, 121
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), 61; Nixon’s State of Union address boycotted by, 160
Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), x
Connelly, Will, 143
Cothran, Tilmon, 58
Council on Social Work Education (CSWE): and curricular transformation, 128; and institutionalized racism, 127; new diversity curriculum standard of, 132; nondiscrimination standard of, 129
counter-centers, within organizations, 158
Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams, 5
crime, 74
cultural development, Black Power Conference mandate for, 40
cultural institutionalization, and social movements, 12
curricula, social work: demand for change in, 159; guidelines for, 132; human behavior content in, 130; impact of black pressure on, 132; practicum and methods area of, 132; social welfare policy and services sequence in, 131; task forces for, 129–30; white-centered, 128. See also education, social work
 
“Declaration of Independence, Black,” 62
Delaney, Lenore, 1
De Mau Mau, 164
Democratic Select Committee, 61
Detroit, Association of Black Social Workers in, 114, 123
Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), 94, 196n8
Dialogue with Black Power (informational packet), 103
“dirty workers,” 93
dissent, black, in NFS, 89–93
diversity, contemporary forms of, 175
diversity industry, 172
diversity politics, 173
Drake, St. Clair, 84
Drake Report. See Race Relations in Time of Rapid Social Change
Dryden, Denis, 81
Du Bois, W. E. B., 16
Dutschke, Rudi, 29–30
 
Ebony (magazine), 41, 100
economic development, black, 40
Economic Opportunity Act (1964), 50, 51, 67
education: African-American access to, 49–50. See also higher education
education, public, segregation outlawed in, 31
education, social work, 131; curricular change in, 128–29; focus on diversity of, 169
educators, black social work, 130
Ehrenreich, John H., 69, 72
Eisenhower administration, 74
electoral power,: African American, 41
elites: Black, 176; and casework model, 73; within NFS, 108; responses to dissent of, 175
emergent mobilization framework, in social movements, 149–51
emotional displays, appropriate, 204n6
emotional labor, 19, 24, 161–67, 204n6
emotions: equated with irrationality, 166; power and, 167; in race relations, 164; within social movements, 107–108, 110–11, 166; sociology of, 166–67
employment, African-American access to, 49–50
equal access, and black dissent, 90
Equal Employment Opportunity Act (1972), 50, 51
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 50
“equality of results,” 62
Evers, Charles, 86
Executive Order 1124, 33
exit and voice, 19; emergent mobilization framework, 149–51, 150; emotional labor, 161–67; implications and outcomes, 167–70; IOSMs, 157–61; leadership and strategic decisions, 154–57
experience, black American, 130
expertise, racial definition of, 145
 
faculty: black, 45; and curricula changes, 168
families, African American/Black, 47; in Moynihan Report, 46–47; and transracial adoption, 136, 137
Feagin, Joseph, 7, 9
fear, white, 163; and “Mau-Mauing,” 164
Federal Work Study, 475
feminism, and men in NABSW, 143
FileMaker Pro record template, 183, 184
Fisk University, social work study at, 17
Five Towns Community House, New York, 78–79
flank effects, 26
Forberg, Janice, 94
Forman, James, 40
Foucault, Michel, 8
frame analysis, role of leadership in, 155
Freedom Centers, in Mississippi, 86, 87
Freedom Movement, in Mississippi, 86
Freedom Neighborhood Centers, 85
Freeman, Harry, 103
“friendly visitors,” practice of, 71
 
Gannon, Mrs. G. F., 94
Gans, Herbert, 80, 102
Gary, Larry, 1
“gatekeepers,” vs. advocates for change, 122
gender: in NABSW dynamic, 143; in social movement process, 185–86
German student movement, 29
ghettoes: black, 74; racial, 48
ghetto living, restructuring, 131
Gilkes, Cheryl Townsend, 52
Glasgow, Douglas, 115, 123, 126–27, 187
Glick, Lester, 95
Glide Memorial Church, 2, 115, 116, 144
Goddard Riverside Community Center, 80
Goldman, Peter, 27
graduate programs: black students in, 56; minorities in, 66–67
Gramsci, Antonio, 29, 55
Great Society programs, 17–18, 22, 45, 48, 49, 50; indigenous nonprofessionals hired for, 67–68
Green, Robert, 57, 64–65
Greene, William, 121
guilt, white, 172
Gurr, Ted, 165
Gwynn, Tom, 104–5
 
Haines, Herbert, 26
Hamilton, Charles V., 37–38, 44, 93, 100, 114, 119, 125, 145, 175, 199n3
Hamilton-Madison House, New York, 79–80
Hardy, Eleanor, 103
Harrison, Michael I., 19
Hartford Community Centers, 106
Hatcher, Mayor Richard G., 41
Haynes, Elizabeth Ross, 16
Head Start, 51; in Mississippi, 85
hegemony, 8
helping professionals, black, 18
Henry Street Settlement, New York, 111
Herstslet, Gordon, 109
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 17
higher education: African American/black access to, 17, 49–50. See also graduate programs
hip-hop culture, 3
Hirschman, Albert O., 19
histories, oral, 185–86, 187
Hochshild, Arlie, 204n6
Hope, Lugenia Burns, 16
Houston Community Center, Philadelphia, 103
 
identity: black, 171, 182; organizational, 13, 151–54
identity, professional: for black social workers, 145; developing, 138–40; developing black, 139–40
identity politics, 173
identity work, 64–65; of black professional associations, 141–42; in NABSW movement, 144
immigrants, European, 82
individual change model, 71
inequality: racial, 8; resistance to, 9; and social institutions, 157
inner cities, and settlement house movement, 111. See also urban riots
Inner City Violence, NFS Conference on, 91
institutional change, 182
institutionalization: of black liberation movement, 21; of Black Power politics, 5; civil, 11, 14–15, 30, 157; cultural, 12; movement, 181–82, 182; organizational, 12, 19–21; political, 11–12; of social movements, 12–14, 159; of social work, 15–18
institutional settings: race relations in, 6; for racial politics, 7–8
institution building, 44, 51
institutions: access to, 171; racial hierarchy of, 8
integration: and black dissent, 90; and Black Power, 84–85; as goal of settlement movement, 84; NFS’s commitment to, 102; transition to, 172
integration, school: and ALA, 59; efficacy of, x; resistance to, 31
integrationism, NFS’s commitment to, 95
integrationist philosophy, 95
intelligence testing, for African Americans, 57
International Association of Black Professional Fire Fighters, logos of, 64
interracial relationships, in Black Power era, 110
interracial staff, principle of maintaining, 84
interviews, oral history, 185–86
intra-organizational social movements (IOSMs), 13; analyses of, 161; conceptual model of, 157–61; creation of, 14; emergent mobilization framework for, 149–51, 150; functions of, 158–61, 159; to institutionalize movement goals, 158; tactics for seeking change of, 14; work of, 162. See also National Association of Black Social Workers
IQ testing, racism in, 57, 179
irrelevance, defined, 153
issue maintenance, 160
 
Jackson, Rev. Jesse, 43, 199n3
Jackson, Judith D., 176
Jaggers, Garland, 118, 122–23, 125, 144, 187
Jani, Jayshree S., 129
Jasper, James M., 107
Jeff, Morris, 99
Jet (magazine), 100
Job Corps, 51
Johnson, Audreye, 115, 119, 122, 123, 125, 136, 141, 142, 143, 144, 176
Johnson, Frederick, 80
Johnson, Lathan, 124–25. See also Karanja, Sokoni
Johnson, Pres. Lyndon B., 45, 47, 48; Executive Order 11375 of, 51
Johnson administration, 49; antipoverty policies of, 17–18, 22, 45, 48, 50, 67–68
Jones, Eugene K., 17
Joseph, Peniel, 43
 
Karanja, Sokoni, 124–25, 142–43, 186, 187
Katzenstein, Mary Fainsod, 192n12
Kelley, Robin D. G., 15
Kennedy, Pres. John F., Executive Order 10925 of, 51
Kerner, Otto, 47
Kerner Commission, 47–48, 59;
Kerner Report. See Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
Kidneigh, John C., 117
Killian, Lewis, 19, 31
King, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, Jr., x–xi, 1, 32, 49; assassination of, 150; on goal of civil rights movement, 162
 
Ladner, Joyce, 53
Lasch-Quinn, Elizabeth, 172–73
leadership: black ascendance to, 108; NABSW, 168; NFS, 110; role of settlement, 111; for social movements, 154–55; TCM, 168
leadership, black, white reaction to, 163
leadership, black male: need for, 93; in settlements, 108; in social service agencies, 101
leadership, white, 173; in settlements, 109
legislation, civil rights: impact of, 5; limits of, 6; and SNCC, 33. See also specific law
legislation, Great Society, 51
legitimacy, organizational, 152, 167
Leonard, Benjamin, 78
Lewis, Ron, 126
liberation movement, black professionals in, 119
librarians, black professional association of, 58–59
licensure: and black expertise, 145; introduction of, 133; opponents of, 134–35; proponents of, 161
Logan, Arthur, 97–98
 
Mahoney, James, 155
Malcolm X, xi, 34, 134, 1942
Maniha, John K., 19
Marable, Manning, 42
March on Washington, 23; NFS participation in, 77, 78–79, 80, 81; Poor People’s, 114, 116
Market Street Neighborhood House, Louisville, 81
Marshall, Justice Marshall, 41
Martin, Trayvon, 177–78
“massive resistance,” 31, 193n2
Mau Mau: and Black Power, 161–62; origin of term, 204–5n7
Mau-Mauing, use of phrase, 164
Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding, 67
maximum feasible participation, 18, 67
Mayes, Keith, 26
mayoral politics, black, 22
mayors, black: Charles Evers, 86; Richard G. Hatcher, 41; Carl B. Stokes, 41; Harold Washington, 43
McAdam, Doug, 26–27, 108, 149, 150, 166
McCarthyism, of 1950s, 75
media, and Black Panther Party, 35
“melting pot,” myth of, 104
men, black: dominance in NABSW of, 142, 143; projecting strong image of, 142
mental hygiene movement, 72
Meredith, James, 34
methodology, 181–83, 184; archival sources, 186–87; descriptive database system, 183; oral histories, 185–86, 187
middle class, black: Black Power influence on, 25, 176; characteristics of, 146–47; and employment, 50; in mainstream institutions, 44
militant politics, 103
Miller, Coleman, 86
Minority Business Enterprise, Office of, 43
minority communities, reorganization of settlements in, 96
Minority Fellowship Program, of ASA, 58
“minority rights revolution,” 75. See also rights revolution
Minority Specialist position, of ASA, 58
minority staffing, in social work education, 130
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), 85–86
Mississippi Freedom Movement, 85
Mississippi Project, 85–87, 88
Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, 86, 196n35
mobilization framework, in social movements, 149–51
Model Cities administrations, 46
monitors, black professional associations as, 141–42
The Monitor (San Francisco), 143
Montgomery bus boycott, 32
Moore, Wendy, 161
Morris, Aldon, 154–55
Mount Pleasant Community Center, Cleveland, 79
movement institutionalization, 182
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 46–47, 48, 67
Moynihan Report. See The Negro Family: The Case for National Action
MSW students, diversity among, 133
Muhammad Ali, xi
Muhammad Speaks, xi
multicultural frame, for TCM, 156–57
multiculturalism, 157, 173; contemporary forms of, 175
mutual aid, 16
 
narratives, in TGPT, 181
National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), x, 17, 59; and Jane Addams, 83; and Plessy decision, 31
National Association of Black Accountants, logos of, 64
National Association of Black Catalysts, 115. See also Association of Black Catalysts
National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), xiii
National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW), xii, xiii, 1, 21, 44, 66, 69, 116; accountability to Black community of, 122–24; activist orientation encouraged in, 140; and black behavior, 144; and black marginality in profession, 124–26; Black Power influence in, 176; code of ethics of, 140–41; compared with Techni-Culture Movement, 113; and curricular transformation, 128–33; demands submitted to NCSW by, 118, 128, 156; dialogue with NCSW sought by, 118–19; emergent mobilization framework for, 149–51, 150; gender dynamic of, 143; and institutionalized racism, 126–28; issue maintenance of, 160–61; leadership of, 155, 168; legacy of, 177; and licensure, 133–35; logos of, 64; at 1969 NCSW annual forum, 117–18; New York State chapter of, 136; origins of, 2, 4, 23–24, 119–20, 121, 142, 176; policies and norms advocated by, 159; position statement of, 126; and professional identity, 112, 138–40; and racism in social work practice, 135–38; separation from NCSW of, 20; social action of, 152; tactical repertoires of, 159–60; ultimatum made to NCSW, 155, 156
National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, 52
National Association of Colored Women (NACW), 17
National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 20; black caucus at, 114; and civil rights movement, 75; and institutionalized racism, 127; and licensure requirements, 133; National Social Action Workshop on Urban Crisis of, 114, 199n2
National Bar Association, 52
National Black Economic Development Conference (1969), 40
National Black Political Convention (1972), 41–42
National Center for Education Statistics, 49
National Conference of Black Lawyers, 53
National Conference on Charities and Casework (NCCC), 72
National Conference on Social Welfare (NCSW), 4, 20, 23, 70; black dissent in, 19; and civil rights movement, 75; 1969 forum, 156; and institutionalized racism, 127; NABSW’s demands submitted to, 127, 154, 156; 1968 and 1969 conferences, 1, 70, 90, 114–16, 117, 123; organizational identity of, 152–54; organizational legitimacy of, 152; racial tradition of, 154; settings for meetings of, 76; unresponsiveness and resistance of, 115; walkout of black social workers from, 114–16; as white institution, 128
National Democratic Convention (1972), 42
National Federation of Settlements (NFS), 4, 19, 20; black associate director for, 99–101; black dissent in, 89–93; black social workers in, 23; civil rights activism of, 81–87; and civil rights movement, 75; on community control, 104; Conference on Inner City Violence of, 91; and crisis of relevance, 101–12; Drake Report, 84; elites within, 108; 43rd National Conference of, 82; 45th Annual Conference of, 90; goal of, 107; leadership at, 95, 107; and 1964 March on Washington, 23; and Mississippi Project, 85; New Directions Committee of, 92, 106, 110; organizational identity of, 152–54; organizational legitimacy of, 152; 1974 public relations campaign of, 100–101; racial tradition of, 154; reorienting of, 76–77; restructuring of, 111; SEA committee of, 82; social action practice and policy of, 76–77; and social change, 87–88; and Southern civil rights movement, 86–87; “stance taking” of, 77; subcommittee on civil rights of, 80–81; Techni-Culture Committee of, 113; Techni-Culture constituency of, 112; and Techni-Culture Movement, 153
National Federation of Settlements (NFS) Black Caucus: demands of, 106; reactions to, 107
National Federation of Settlements (NFS) Board: and black dissent, 90; lack of representation on, 106–7; restructuring of, 93; and TCC demands, 97; TCC representation on, 98, 99
nationalism, black: racial integration merged with, xii; territorial separatism of, xii
National Medical Association, 52
National Society of Black Engineers, logos of, 64
National Urban League (NUL), x, 17, 82, 83
National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), at 1969 NCSW annual forum, 117–18
Nation of Islam, xi, 34; and Black Power movement, xi–xii; and civil rights movement, xi
Negro, use of term, xi
The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (Moynihan Report), 46–47, 49, 142
neighborhood resources, community control over, 68
Nelson, Alondra, 26
Newark Rebellion (1967), 39, 41
New Deal, 73
“New Directions for Settlements,” of NFS Black Caucus, 92, 106, 110
News From the Natives, 60–61
New York Review of Books, 161
New York State Association of Black Social Workers, 134
Nixon, Pres. Richard M., 43, 160; and CBC, 61–62; Executive Order 11478 of, 51
Nixon administration, 61
“nonprofessionals,” black, 68
norms: of interracial interaction, 171; new professional, 175; professional, 142; racial, 5
 
Obama, Pres. Barack, 43
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), 85, 163
Ogbar, Jeffrey, ix–xiii, 66
Okada, Shig, 81
Omi, Michael, 8, 9
Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity), 199n3
oral histories, 185–186; guiding questions for, 187; respondents, 187
organizational change, records of, 186
organizational culture, 13
organizational identity, 13, 151–54
organizational institutionalization, 12, 19–21
organizational processes, 182
organizations: access to, 171; counter-centers within, 158; institutionalization of, 19–21; movement-like processes in, 193n16; movements within, 13–14; and social movements, 19
 
Page, Mrs. Anderson, 109
Palmer Memorial Institute, 17
“paper activism,” 70
Parks, Rosa, 32
Peters, Richard, 106
Philadelphia Friends Neighborhood Guild, 103–4
Pitkin, Hanna, 202n74
Pittman, Betti, 100
Piven, Frances Fox, 199n3
Plessy v. Ferguson, 31
police brutality, 35, 54, 86
political institutionalization, and social movements, 11–12
political opportunity models, 165–66
politics: diversity, 173; identity, 173; impact of Black Power movement on, 42–43; mayoral, 22; militant, 103; race, 7–8, 174; of respectability, 17
politics, black, 39–43; assimilationist Black political culture in, 30; context for, 38
politics, Black Power, 27; institutionalization of, 5; in social work profession, 14; and TCM, 23
poor, black: “otherness” of, 49; rightful guardian of, 147; white patronization of, 175
Poor People’s March on Washington, 114, 116. See also March on Washington
Portelli, Alessandro, 185
post-civil rights era, 6
Poussaint, Alvin, 114, 199n3
poverty, 59; in American core cities, 74; black, 47; restructuring, 131
Powell, Rep. Adam Clayton, 39
power: and emotion, 167; of establishment, 107
power-holders, emotional responses of, 108. See also elites
power relations: embedded in society, 8; maintenance of, 173; and social movements, 7; and wars of position, 8
practice, social work: Afrocentric visions of, 147; history of, 71; racism in, 135–38
profession, social work: gender dynamic in, 143–44; service/activism tension in, 70–76; and social change, 169
professional associations: Black Power-era, 148; functions of, 176–79; national social work, 13
professional associations, black, xii–xiii, 3, 22, 46, 49, 146; for anthropologists, 60; during Black Power era, 53, 174–75; creation of, 51, 158; development of, 5; emergence of, 51–54; founding of, 29, 29, 188–89; identity work of, 64–65; influence of black power on, 63–64; for librarians, 58–59; logos of, 63, 64; monitoring function of, 65–66; origins of, 52; position statements of, 54; and professional equality, 65; protest wing of, 65; of psychologists, 55–57; racial norms in, 5; and racial solidarity, 170; sociologists, 57–58
professional associations, social work: response to Black Power of, 173
professionalism: black, 146; of social workers, 72
professionalization: expertise as central to, 145; and social action, 18; of social work, 153
professional organizing, black, 175
professionals, black, xiii, 148; and Black Power ideology, 172; and Black Power movement, 4; and black revolution, 119–20; impact of Black Power on, 52; self-determination for, 53; social workers, 121; standards for, 120–21
professionals, Black Power: in post-civil rights racial order, 169; rise of, 45–49
professional style, for black social workers, 140
professions: activism in, 174, 175; black mobilization in, 13; black organizing within, 174–75; impact of Black Power movement on, 3, 21; increased African American presence in, 45; institutional changes within, 172; institutional forms of racism in, 66
Progressive Era, 16, 17
promotion, and black social workers, 125
protests: of black professional associations, 65, 141–42; student, 103
Prunty, Howard, 118, 155
psychoanalytic theory, 72
psychological instruments, misuse of, 56, 66
psychologists: black professional association of, 55–57; and racism in IQ testing, 179
publications, social work, 125
public opinion, and civil rights activists, xi
Puerto Ricans, CSWE task force for, 129
 
race: academic work on, 169; origins of, 10; redefinitions of, 9; social construction of, 9
Race Experts (Lasch-Quinn), 172–73
race politics, 7–8, 174
race relations: in institutional life, 6; in transition, 172–74; white reactions to black movements in, 164
Race Relations in Time of Rapid Social Change (Drake Report), 84–85, 88
race riots, effect on social work of, 22. See also urban riots
race work, of African American social workers, 16
racial formation theory: classic theory of, 8; concepts of, 10
racial hierarchy, 5
racial ideology, development of, 10
racial integration, black nationalism merged with, xii. See also integration
racialized social systems, 10
racial understandings. in Black Power era, 110
racial uplift ideology, 16
racism: in child welfare system, 179; colorblind, 6; defined, 37, 93; forms of, 37; hidden structures of, 48; institutional, 159, 199n3; in IQ testing, 179; and meaning, 8–9; NABSW’s challenge to, 123; in post-civil rights era, 6; resistance to; of social organizations, 7–8; in social work practice, 135–38; systemic, 9
racism, American: gender dynamic in, 144; S. Carmichael on, 162
racism, institutionalized, 37, 59, 66, 93; in licensure battle, 135; and NABSW, 126–28; and social work curricula, 131, 132
racism, white, 55; Black Power challenge to, 53; calling out, 138; confronting, 95–96, 171; focus on, 57; S. Carmichael on, 162; and white social workers, 92. See also Kerner Commission
Radical Alliance of Social Service Workers (RASSW), 134
Radical Chic and Mau Mauing the Flak-Catchers (Wolfe), 163
radical flank effect, 26; in social activism, 89
radicalism, black: white liberal fetishization of, 163
Rainwater, Lee, 93
Rank and File movement, 73–74
rational choice theory, 168
recruitment standards, CSWE, 128–29
Reed, Adolph, 175–76
Reid, Henry, 97, 99
“relative deprivation,” 165
relevance, racial justice definition of, 153
reparations, call for, 40–41
“repertoires of contention,” 14
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Report), 49, 54, 55, 63, 114, 116, 150
representation, types of, 202–3n74
Republic of New Afrika, 36, 86
research: of APA, 56; archival, 181; oral history, 185–86
“re-segregation,” ix
resentment, white, 173
resource mobilization theory, 165–66
respectability, politics of, 17
“revolutionary shame,” 163
Rhodes, Al, 86
Ricks, Willie, 34–35
rights revolution, 182; institutionalization of, 192–93n14
riots: of late 1960s, 48. See also urban riots
Robinson, Cedric, 30
Rogers, Ibram, 26
Rojas, Fabio, 26, 158
Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin D., 73
Ross, Charles, 119, 144
Rustin, Bayard, 146
Rutgers Housing site, 80
 
Sanders, Charles, 130, 138–39
Scott, Will, 1
self-defense: as Black Power Conference mandate, 39–40; and Black Power movement, 36
self-definition, and Black Power movement, 36. See also identity
self-determination: as Black Power Conference mandate, 39–40; and Black Power movement, 36; for black professionals, 53; in Mississippi Project, 85
self-help, 16; Black Panther Party survival programs, 36; and Black Power movement, 36; in Mississippi, 85
self-reflection, and professional style, 139
self-respect, as Black Power Conference mandate, 39–40
self-sufficiency, as Black Power Conference mandate, 39–40
Sells, Halloway “Chuck,” 96, 98, 99–100, 111, 155–56; integrationist vision of, 156
settlement house movement, 75, 107; and community control, 105; and inner cities, 111
settlements: S. Alinsky’s critique of, 101–2; black male leadership in, 108; critiques of, 101–2; role of, 104; white leadership in, 109
settlement work, origins of, 83. See also National Federation of Settlements
settlement workers, 71; and issue of community control, 104–5
settlement workers, black: in Black Power era, 89; separate conference for, 94–95; and white racism, 92
settlement workers, minority, 96
settlement workers, white, and New Directions process, 92
Silcott, T. George, 1, 2, 70, 135
sit-in strategy, 33
Skocpol, Theda, 182
Smart, Walter, 99, 100, 101, 186
Smith, Robert, 112
Smith, Zelma, 176
Snow, David A., 155
social action: institutionalized forms of, 70; NFS practice of, 77
Social Action Methods (Colburn), 77
social activism, and radical flank effect, 89. See also activism
social change: for black social workers, 18; process of, 182; and race relations, 84–85; social movements as agents of, 165
Social Education and Action (SEA) committee, of NFS, 82
social movements, 7; early theories of, 164–65; emergent mobilization framework for, 149–51, 150; environment for, 19; expressions of anger in, 164; function of emotion in, 107–8, 110–11; gendered processes in, 185–186; institutionalization of, 11–14, 159; institutionalized politics and, 166; intra-organizational (IOSMs), 13; leadership of, 154–55; and organizational identity, 151–54, 168; in organizations, 13–14, 19; outcomes of, 169; and power relations, 7; race-based, 10–11; rationality of participation in, 165; rational vs. irrational social behavior in, 165; state-centered studies of, 21; study of, 148; study of emotions in, 166. See also intra-organizational social movements (IOSMs)
social pathology, popular protest as, 165
social psychology, 166
social service agencies, black male leadership in, 101
social services, and social change, 87
social welfare and black liberation movement, 76–78; civil rights actions, 78–84; Mississippi Project, 85–87; with rapid social change, 84–85
social welfare policy, and power, profit and privilege, 131
social work: in black experience, 16; black insurgency in, 71; during civil rights and Black Power movements, 66–69; functions of, 71; institutionalization of, 15–18; position of black social workers in, 145; professionalization of, 153; psychiatric, 72; racism of, 124; Rank and File movement in, 73–74; service/activism tension in, 71–76; “white,” 135
social work, schools of, during Black Power era, 68–69. See also curricula; education
social workers: dissenting, 71; in ghetto, 16; identity of, 75; reform-oriented, 73; role of, 70
social workers, African American/black, 45, 134; activism of, 142; and Black Power movement, 3, 22, 30–31, 76, 146; and CAPs, 51; challenges for, 168; C. Hamilton’s influence on, 44; collective actions of, 12–14; emotional labor of, 161; and emotional reactions of whites, 167; employment of, 126; grievances of, 123; issue maintenance of, 160; licensure and, 133, 134; and National Conference on Social Work (1968), 70; at 1968 NCSW annual forum, 116; at NFS conference (45th), 90; opposed to NABSW movement, 147; as “outsiders within,” 14, 145; positionality of, 145; post-civil rights demands of, 112; and power sharing, 15; private documents of, 182; as professionals, 121, 138–40; during Progressive Era, 17; and social change, 18; tactics of, 124; at Urban Crisis Conference, 115; white social workers’ reactions to, 18
social workers, white, 2; in black communities, 72; and civil rights movement, 150; and community control, 105; emotional responses of, 167; and inner-city violence, 91–92
Social Work (journal), 80, 102, 111
social work organizations, and civil rights movement, 22–23. See also specific organizations
social work profession, African American workforce of, 46. See also social workers
society, racial structure of, 10
sociologists, black professional association of, 57–58. See also Caucus of Black Sociologists
solidarity, racial, 169–70
Sons of Watts, 123
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), x
Southfield Neighborhood Center, in Stamford, CT, 106
Staggenborg, Suzanne, 154
“stance taking,” of NFS, 77
Standard 1234, 129
Standard 1234A, 129, 132
“Stand Your Ground” legislation, 178
Stern Family Fund, 85
Stokes, Mayor Carl B., 41
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), x; as Black Power advocate, 27; formation of, 33; radicalism of, 33–34
student protests, police repression of, 103
students, and curricula changes, 168. See also curricula
Stuyvesant Community Center, Brooklyn, 81
suburbanization, white, 74
Supreme Court, U.S., first black justice on, 41
systemic racism, 9
 
Taylor, Lea, 94
Taylor, Murtis, 79
TCM: criticism of, 157; leadership of, 155, 168; policies and norms advocated by, 159; social action of, 152; tactical repertoires of, 159–60
Techni-Culture Committee (TCC) of NFS, 113; demands presented by, 97; disbanded, 100; goals of, 98–99; and youth representation, 97
Techni-Culture Conference (TCC): multicultural organizing model for, 96; planning for, 95; rationale for, 95; reactions to, 109; successes of, 96–97
Techni-Culture Movement (TCM), 20–21, 23, 148, 163; black organizing in, 168; and Black Power movement, 113; emergent mobilization framework for, 149–51, 150; NFS response to, 153
theory guided process tracing (TGPT), 181
Tinajero, Antonio, 96
training programs, of APA, 56
Trolander, Judith, 108, 110, 163
Ture, Kwame. See Carmichael, Stokely
Turner, Ralph, 19
Tuttle School, 17
Twenty-fourth Amendment (1965), 33
 
undergraduate programs, black students in, 56
unemployment: for African Americans, 50; restructuring, 131
unions, social worker, 74
United Auto Workers (UAW), 94
United Freedom Movement, 79
United Neighborhood Houses of New York, 97
United States: black power’s impact in, 3; racialized social structure of, 8–9; and school segregation, 6; systemic racism of, 9
United Way, 72
Universal Negro Improvement Association, xii
Upward Bound, 51
Urban Crisis Conference (UCC), 105, 136, 142; participation in, 114–15
Urban League, 43
urban rebellions, 37, 186
urban riots, 41, 47, 49, 76; Kerner Commission on, 116; and settlement agencies, 102; in Watts neighborhood, 122
 
Vietnam War, black soldiers returning from, 164
visibility, black, 38
voice. see exit and voice
Voting Rights Act (1965), 33, 61, 194n1
 
wars of position, 8
Washington, Harold, 43
Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, 122
Watts Rebellion of 1965, 35
welfare. See also National Conference on Social Welfare
welfare, associated with blackness, 75
Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell, 16, 17
West, Michal O., 44
West Side Community House, Cleveland, 81
white flight, 6, 41, 59, 74
white liberals, 162
white supremacy, explicit forms of, x
Wiley, George, 117
Wilkins, Roy, ix
Williams, Cenie, 139–40
Winant, Howard, 8, 9
Wolfe, Tom, 163, 172
women, and NABSW, 142, 143
women, black: race work of, 16–17; in social welfare, 16
working class, American, 72
World War II, racial dynamics of, 74
 
Young, Whitney, 43, 82