Saying It Loud
by Mark Whitaker
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1982114126 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 28.44 MB
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 Loudtells the story of how the Black Power phenomenon began to challenge the traditional civil rights movement in the turbulent year of 1966.Saying It Loudtakes 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...
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