Saying It Loud

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