Joseph, Peniel E

"Peniel Joseph offers a powerful new interpretation of recent American history. The summer of 2020, he argues, marked the climax of nothing less than a Third Reconstruction: a new period of intense struggle to secure citizenship and dignity for Black Americans, just as momentous as the movements that sought to transform America after the US Civil War and during the civil rights era. America's first and second Reconstructions failed to achieve their largest aims. But our Third Reconstruction, Joseph writes, offers an opportunity we must seize"--Provided by publisher.

". . . reveals a nuanced portrait of two men, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired an dpushed each other throughout their adult lives"--Adapted from dust jacket.

Traces the history of Black Power in the United States from the movement's origins in 1966 to the present, discussing the civil rights activists who have fought for the cause, the movement's impact on American history, the controversies surrounding it, and other related topics.

A biography of Stokely Carmichael, an American civil rights activist and member of the Black Power movement who helped organize the original Black Panther Party in Alabama, but made the abrupt decision at age twenty-seven to leave the United States for Africa.

A collection of essays that examine the origins of the civil rights movements that took place during the 1960s, and discusses the 1965 Watts uprising, the formation of the Black Panther Party, "rainbow radicalism, " the Third World Women's Alliance, and related topics.

Argues that the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly the period after 1965, laid the foundations for Barack Obama's 2009 presidential inauguration, highlighting the policies, people, and events that led to a new wave of African-American leadership in the United States.

Traces the history of Black Power in the United States from the movement's origins in 1966 to the present, discussing the civil rights activists who have fought for the cause, the movement's impact on American history, the controversies surrounding it, and other related topics.