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Saying It Loud - 1966-The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
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Saying It Loud - 1966-The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 170
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Journalist and author Mark Whitaker explores the momentous year
that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black
identity expressed in the slogan "Black Power" challenged the
nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis. In
gripping, novelistic detail, Saying It Loud tells the story of how
the Black Power phenomenon began to challenge the traditional civil
rights movement in the turbulent year of 1966. Saying It Loud takes
you inside the dramatic events in this seminal year, from Stokely
Carmichael's middle-of-the-night ouster of moderate icon John Lewis
as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
to Carmichael's impassioned cry of "Black Power!" during a protest
march in rural Mississippi. From Julian Bond's humiliating and
racist ouster from the Georgia state legislature because of his
antiwar statements to Ronald Reagan's election as California
governor riding a "white backlash" vote against Black Power and
urban unrest. From the founding of the Black Panther Party for
Self-Defense by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California,
to the origins of Kwanzaa, the Black Arts Movement, and the first
Black studies programs. From Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s
ill-fated campaign to take the civil rights movement north to
Chicago to the wrenching ousting of the white members of SNCC.
Deeply researched and widely reported, Saying It Loud offers
brilliant portraits of the major characters in the yearlong drama,
and provides new details and insights from key players and
journalists who covered the story. It also makes a compelling case
for why the lessons from 1966 still resonate in the era of Black
Lives Matter and the fierce contemporary battles over voting
rights, identity politics, and the teaching of Black history.
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