This text appeared in Racism or Class Struggle: Further Pages from a Black Worker's Notebook (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1970), 51-62.
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Black Power: A Scientific Concept Whose Time Has Come
James Boggs
Jacob Lawrence, Migration Series, panel 45, 1941. This painting is accompanied by a set of captions issued by the artist, the first in 1941: "They arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North, in large numbers."