Saying It Loud: 1966--The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement

by Mark Whitaker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982114126
• ISBN13: 9781982114121
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.5" x 8.2"