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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
A Narrative History of Black Power in America
- 422 pages
- English
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About this book
This "vibrant and expressive" history of the Black Power movement captures the voices and personalities at the forefront of change (
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.
A Washington Post Book World Best Nonfiction Book of 2006
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.
A Washington Post Book World Best Nonfiction Book of 2006
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Preface
- Introduction: To Shape a New World
- 1. Forerunners
- 2. At Home in the World
- 3. Waging War Amid Shadows
- 4. Liberators
- 5. Political Kingdoms
- 6. “Black” Is a Country
- 7. “What We Gonna Start Sayin’ Now Is Black Power!”
- 8. Storm Warnings
- 9. The Trial of Huey Percy Newton
- 10. Dark Days, Bright Nights
- 11. Dashikis and Democracy
- Epilogue: Legacies, 1975–2005
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Also by Peniel E. Joseph
- Praise for Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour
- About the Author
- Copyright