#119: Mark Whitaker - "Saying it Loud"

One of the hallmarks of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s is that its leaders preached non-violence. Dr. Martin Luther King said non-violence is the "absolute commitment to the way of love." But by 1966, after several legislative victories that established the right to vote and banned discrimination in places of public accommodation, young Black activists became frustrated with the slow pace of success in changing the environment around jobs, housing, and seeing Black political candidates achieve victory. Mark Whitaker's book, "Saying it Loud: The Year the Black Power Movement Challenged the Civil Rights Movement," describes the successes and failures of the new approach to demanding equality. He chronicles the tribulations of Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichal and the founding of the Black Panther party. He also describes how their pushes changed American politics for generations, as they inadvertently gave rise to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. He also shows how activists not only changed politics, but culture around lingo, Black hairstyles and the way we discuss race in America.

Mark Whitaker is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Marktwhitaker

Information on his book can be found at https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Saying-It-Loud/Mark-Whitaker/9781982114121

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