Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour

This “vibrant and expressive” history of the Black Power movement captures the voices and personalities at the forefront of change ( Philadelphia Inquirer ). With the rallying cry of “Black Power!” in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton, turned their backs on Martin Luther King’s pacifism and, building on Malcolm X’s legacy, pioneered a radical new approach to the fight for equality. Drawing on original archival research and more than sixty original