Waiting 'til the midnight hour: a narrative history of Black power in America
(Book)
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, and death of the Black Power movement
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. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour 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.
Peniel E. Joseph traces the history of the men and women of the movement—many of them famous or infamous, others forgotten. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour 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.
Drawing on original archival research and more than sixty original oral histories, this narrative history vividly invokes the way in which Black Power redefined black identity and culture and in the process redrew the landscape of American 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.
Notes
Joseph, P. E. (2006). Waiting 'til the midnight hour: a narrative history of Black power in America. New York, Henry Holt and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Joseph, Peniel E. 2006. Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York, Henry Holt and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Joseph, Peniel E, Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York, Henry Holt and Co, 2006.
MLA Citation (style guide)Joseph, Peniel E. Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York, Henry Holt and Co, 2006.
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