Dark days, bright nights : from Black power to Barack Obama

By - Joseph, Peniel E.

Floor - Floor 1

Published - New York, NY : BasicCivitas Books, c2010.

ISBN 10 - 046503313X

ISBN 13 - 9780465033133

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - X, Malcolm, 1925-1965--Political and social views.

Shelf No - 15

Call Number - 323.1196 JOS

Physical Description - vii, 277 p. ; 25 cm.

Notes - Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-264) and index.

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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. In Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph elucidates Black Power's forgotten achievements by retelling the story of the movement through the lives of activists, intellectuals, and artists including Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Amiri Baraka, and Barack Obama. In so doing, Joseph re-assesses a half-century fraught with struggle to expose the Black Power movement's resounding triumphs and continuing influence on American democracy.

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