Saying It Loud: 1966--The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement

Title: Saying It Loud: 1966--The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement Author: Mark Whitaker ISBN: 9781982114138 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1592942 Publisher Description: 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 sem