Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
- ISBN-10
- 1466837616
- ISBN-13
- 9781466837614
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-07-10
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Author
- Peniel E. Joseph
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2007-07-10
- 399 pages
- Paperback
- Macmillan
-
- 2006-07-25
- 399 pages
- Paperback
- Macmillan
Similar books
-
Stokely: A Life
By Peniel E. JosephIn Stokely, preeminent civil rights scholar Peniel E. Joseph presents a groundbreaking biography of Carmichael, using his life as a prism through which to view the transformative African American freedom struggles of the twentieth century.
-
New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975
By William L. Van DeburgJohn Henrik Clarke (Boston: Beacon, 1968), 4; Ernest Kaiser, “The Failure of William Styron,” in Clark, Ten Black Writers, 57, 65; Darwin T. Turner, review of The Confessions of Nat Turner, in Journal of Negro History 53 {April 1968}: ...
-
The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992
By Harvard SitkoffA new edition of the classic history of the struggle for black equality discusses Reaganomics, white backlash, and other pressing issues for blacks living in America.
-
To Die for the People
By Huey NewtonThe opportunity to recognize that genius and see its applicability to our own times is what is most significant about this new edition." —Robert Stanley Oden, former Panther, Professor of Government, California State University, ...
-
Freedom Struggles
By Adriane Danette Lentz-SmithThis beautifully written book reclaims World War I as a critical moment in the freedom struggle and places African Americans at the crossroads of social, military, and international history.
-
The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era
By Peniel E. JosephOffering important examples of undocumented histories of black liberation, this volume offers both powerful and poignant examples of 'Black Power Studies' scholarship.
-
A Gentleman 'Til Midnight
By Alison DeLaineThe complication they don't want… Lady Katherine Kinloch survived captivity once.
-
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
By Peniel E. JosephThis is a strikingly revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era they came to define.
-
Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity
By Jeffrey O. G. OgbarUltimately, Black Power reveals a black freedom movement in which the ideals of desegregation through nonviolence and black nationalism marched side by side.
-
Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
By Stefan M. BradleyThis book attempts to complete the narrative of higher education history, while adding a much needed nuance to the history of the Black Power movement.