Yale historian Jonathan Holloway continues his lecture series on American history since emancipation, tracing the Black Power movement's shift away from its Southern, church-based roots toward international concerns like Vietnam and global capitalism. He follows SNCC's changing trajectory, Martin Luther King Jr's Chicago poverty campaign and his public break with the Vietnam War, the riots that erupted after King's 1968 assassination, and the Poor People's Campaign that followed. The lecture situates these threads within the broader unrest of 1968, arguing that as the movement's demands grew more radical and global in scope, its moral hold on the American public weakened. Recorded in Spring 2010 as part of Yale's Open Courses, the talk is organized into chapters covering SNCC, King's Chicago campaign, his Vietnam views, the assassination riots, and the Poor People's Campaign, giving a detailed chronological account of a pivotal year in civil rights history.