Dark Days, Bright Nights From Black Power to Barack Obama

Name: Dark Days, Bright Nights From Black Power to Barack Obama
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ISBN: 9780465033133

ISBN-10: 046503313X

ISBN-13: 9780465033133

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peniel E. Joseph

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The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s is now remembered as a distant, sepia-toned campaign, whose achievements and idealism were soon eclipsed by angry, confrontational Black Power activists. However, far from marking the end of an era, as is commonly thought, the 1965 Voting Rights Act wrested open a dam holding back radical political impulses. This political explosion initially took the form of the Black Power Movement, which, though conventionally adjudged a failure, in fact laid the groundwork for a crucial new wave of black leadership culminating in the inauguration of Barack Obama. InDark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph elucidates Black Power’s…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 2/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.23" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Foreword to the Paperback Edition


Introduction



Reimagining the Black Power Movement



Malcolm X, Harlem, and American Democracy



Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s



"A Place Where All Things Are Possible": Barack Obama and Dreams of Democracy


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index