title: Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
author: Junius Williams
description: "Junius Williamss memoir provoked a full range of emotions locked in my private vault of memories. His personal journey should be required reading for people who care about their communities and have either a sense of hopelessness or a burning desire to bring about positive change where they live.<br /> Dennis W. Archer, mayor of Detroit (19942001) and president of the National Bar Association (19831984) and the American Bar Association (20032004)<br /> <br />This absolutely riveting story resonates well beyond the emblematic city of Newark, New Jersey. An activist combining ivy-league sophistication and street smarts, Junius Williams helped make the urban Norths civil rights revolution. Although his peoples power inevitably ran up against entrenched institutional power, black as well as white, Williams still inspires and instructs a new generation for whom this should be recommended reading.<br /> Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, and author of <i>The History of White People</i><br /><br /> <i>Unfinished Agenda </i>is the memoir of a remarkable mans personal journey through the racial, social, and cultural politics of the last half-century. Junius Williams has spent his life as a changemaker, and his story is certain to inspire activists today and for generations to come.<br /> John Schreiber, president and CEO of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center<br /><br />"Williams is an example of what one leader can do to inspire change in the city. Hes passing his knowledge on to the next generation, to keep the fires of resistance and imagination burning."<br />John D. Atlas, NJ.com
zlib_text: BOOK REVIEWS 
  Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community, by Steven 
  Gregory, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1998. 282 Pp. $29.95 cloth. 
  Reviewed by: Hayward Derrick Horton, SUNY -Albany 
  Political activism within the black community has long been a topic of debate among 
  contemporary scholars of race and ethnicity in the United States. Morris' Origins of the 
  Civil Rights Movement remains the standard by which present day social scientists are 
  measured when they attempt to document and explain social movements in general and 
  political action in particular within the context of the black community. Whereas it is far 
  too early to determine if it will be the successor to Morris' work, Steven Gregory has 
  certainly written a very thoughtful and intriguing book, Black Corona: Race and the 
  Politics of Place in an Urban Community. 
  Black Corona addresses the processes by which a black community in New York City 
  deals with racism. However, it does muc