Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
A Narrative History of Black Power in America

the politics of insurrection The roots of the Black Power Movement in America can be traced as far back as Marcus Garvey and his 1914 Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). However, Peniel Joseph points to a Cold War assault on black radicals, whom conservatives associated with an influx of......more

A very good synthetic history of "Black Power" from its intellectual and political origins in the 1950s (with appropriate glances back at the deeper history) to its slow and tragic unraveling in the mid-70s. When I read the book the first time, my immediate response was that there wasn't much in it......more