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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... Cover 465 Title Page 2 Copyright Notice 1 Contents 3 Dedication 5 Epigraphs 6 Preface 7 Introduction: To Shape a New World 9 1. Forerunners 18 2. At Home in the World 46 3. Waging War Amid Shadows 57 4. Liberators 83 5. Political Kingdoms 112 6. “Black” Is a Country 136 7

Author

Peniel E. Joseph

Publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

Language

EN