Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, by Peniel E. Joseph

The next regular meeting of TransAfrica Forum's Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library Readers' Corner book club will be held on Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM, featuring the book Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, by Peniel E. Joseph (2006, Henry Holt and Co.).

Venue: TransAfrica Forum 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20006 (Nearest Metro Station: Farragut North on the Red Line or Farragut West on the Blue/Orange Lines).

Book Description from the Publisher:

With the rallying cry of “Black Power!” in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Toure] 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 oral histories, Peniel E. Joseph vividly invokes the way in which Black Power redefined black identity and culture and in the process redrew the landscape of American race relations. In a series of character-driven chapters, we witness the rise of Black Power groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers, and with them, on both coasts of the country, a fundamental change in the way Americans understood the unfinished business of racial equality and integration.

Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour traces the history of the Black Power movement, that storied group of men and women who would become American icons of the struggle for racial equality. http://us.macmillan.com/waitingtilthemidnighthour

The book is available at Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, Washington, DC (two blocks from the Cardozo/U Street Metro. Contact: General Manager Don Allen 202.387.POET.

For more information contact TransAfrica Forum Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library: Tel: 202.223.1960 ext. 137 or Fax: 202.223.1966 or email: info@transafricaforum.org; website: www.transafricaforum.org.