Binding: Paperback
Description: " 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.
Title: Waiting Til The Midnight Hour A Narrative History Of Black Power In America
Author(s): Joseph Peniel E
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
Barcode: 9780805083354
Pages: 404 Pages
Publication Date: 7/10/2007
Category: Political Science & Theory