Waiting 'til the midnight hour : a narrative history of Black power in America
(Book - Regular Print)
Author
Published
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 399 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Prescott College Library - Circulating Collection
E185.615.J68 2006
1 available
E185.615.J68 2006
1 available
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Published
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2006.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
UPC
9780805075397
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-373) and index.
Description
A history of the Black Power movement in the United States traces the origins and evolution of the influential movement and examines the ways in which Black Power redefined racial identity and culture. 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. [This book] is a history of the Black Power movement, that storied group of men and women who would become American icons of the struggle for racial equality. In the book, the author traces the history of the men and women of the movement, many of them famous or infamous, others forgotten. It begins in Harlem in the 1950s, where, despite the Cold War's hostile climate, black writers, artists, and activists built a new urban militancy that was the movement's earliest incarnation. 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. The book invokes the way in which Black Power redefined black identity and culture and in the process redrew the landscape of American race relations.
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LC Subjects
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Joseph, P. E. (2006). Waiting 'til the midnight hour: a narrative history of Black power in America (First edition.). Henry Holt and Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Joseph, Peniel E. 2006. Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. Henry Holt and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Joseph, Peniel E. Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America Henry Holt and Co, 2006.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Joseph, Peniel E. Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America First edition., Henry Holt and Co., 2006.
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