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The title, "It Happened Here Too: The Black Liberation Movement of St. Louis, Missouri," is a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights movement scholarship in general but more specifically, scholarship that continues to ignore the city of St. Louis and the civil rights struggle that took place there. At the turn of the century we have entered into a new phase in the study of the Civil Rights movement. Historians have begun to investigate local movements, uncovering the nuances and various forms of the struggle on local levels and in different parts of the country. While historians have begun to investigate local movements, they have also begun to erase the sharp division between the Civil Rights movement and the so called Black Power movement, no longer seeing a strict demarcation between two separate movements. However, while historians have begun looking at the "classical period" of the Civil Rights movement of the '50s and '60s, on a local level, few historians have examined the latter years of the movement, the so called Black Power years, from a similar local perspective. Failure to consider the movement outside of the Deep South has caused historians to focus primarily on the transition to Black Power by organization such as SNCC, a group that did not exist in St. Louis. On the other hand, when historians do examine Black Power in the North, the primary subject of focus is most often the Black Panthers. This work fills in this gap by examining these latter years of the Civil Rights movement, the so called Black Power years, from the local perspective of St. Louis, Missouri.