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A Narrative History Of Black Power In America
Holt
July 2007
On Sale: July 10, 2007
432 pages
ISBN: 0805083359
EAN: 9780805083354
Kindle: B00BCG1MTY
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"Once in a while a book comes along that projects the
spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and
expressive . . . A well-researched and well-written work."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer With the rallying cry of "Black Power!" in 1966, a group of
black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P.
Newton, turned their backs on Martin Luther King's pacifism
and, building on Malcolm X's legacy, pioneered a radical new
approach to the fight for equality. Drawing on original
archival research and more than sixty original oral
histories, Peniel E. Joseph vividly invokes the way in which
Black Power redefined black identity and culture and in the
process redrew the landscape of American race relations. In
a series of character-driven chapters, we witness the rise
of Black Power groups such as the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers, and with
them, on both coasts of the country, a fundamental change in
the way Americans understood the unfinished business of
racial equality and integration. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour traces the history of
the Black Power movement, that storied group of men and
women who would become American icons of the struggle for
racial equality.
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