People Power Change

Year Published: 1974

Creator: University of Minnesota

Complete Record: A study of the dynamics of movements of revolutionary change. Three movements are described: Black power in North America is described in two segments that bookend the narrative. Components of revolutionary change are ideology, recruitment, commitment, organization and opposition. The first movement shows NAACP and African Americans in large public meetings. The second segment looks at the Pentecostal movement in Colombia, which represents "the new faith" in opposition to the government and the Catholic Church. The third segment the Pentecostal movement in Haiti, which responds to the oppressive government of President Duvallier and the Catholic Church. The movement is, additionally, a reaction to Voodoo as negatively controlling on their lives. The last segment returns to North America with a look at Black Power in Minneapolis, both as a revitalization movement of black pride and as an ideology containing diverse cells within, including whites.