| The Congress of African People (CAP) was a significant Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist organization that emerged out of the 1960s Black Power movement. Founded in 1970 in Atlanta, Georgia, CAP began as a national united front organization with varying ideological views, developed into an ideologically unified revolutionary organization and eventually became part of the new communist movement. CAP's most famous member was Amiri Baraka whose personal ideological changes influenced those of the organization. Through use of a personal and political history as well as internal CAP documents, speeches, government files, interviews with members of CAP, and references from a growing body of Black Power Studies literature and memory, the rise, and dissipation of a once influential Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist organization is detailed. |
