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Mark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a
poet” (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of 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
“crisp prose” (The New York Times) and 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 a
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.
A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst
forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s-"Smoketown
will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who
loves a good story...terrific, eminently readable...fascinating"
(The Washington Post). Today black Pittsburgh is known as the
setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble, but doomed,
working-class citizens. But this community once had an impact on
American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of Harlem
and Chicago. It published the most widely read black newspaper in
the country, urging black voters to switch from the Republican to
the Democratic Party, and then rallying black support for World War
II. It fielded two of the greatest baseball teams of the Negro
Leagues and introduced Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Pittsburgh was the childhood home of jazz pioneers Billy Strayhorn,
Billy Eckstine, Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, and Erroll Garner;
Hall of Fame slugger Josh Gibson-and August Wilson himself. Some of
the most glittering figures of the era were changed forever by the
time they spent in the city, from Joe Louis and Satchel Paige to
Duke Ellington and Lena Horne. Mark Whitaker's Smoketown is a
"rewarding trip to a forgotten special place and time" (Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette). It depicts how ambitious Southern migrants were
drawn to a steel-making city on a strategic river junction; how
they were shaped by its schools and a spirit of commerce with roots
in the Gilded Age; and how their world was eventually destroyed by
industrial decline and urban renewal. "Smoketown brilliantly offers
us a chance to see this other Black Renaissance and spend time with
the many luminaries who sparked it...It's thanks to such a gifted
storyteller as Whitaker that this forgotten chapter of American
history can finally be told in all its vibrancy and glory" (The New
York Times Book Review).
In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal
discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to
trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but
star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding
of the family dramas that shaped their lives--and his own.
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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