Saying It Loud: 1966The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement | 
Tagged my favorite of the month.
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Saying It Loud
4.5⭐
Babel
Malcolm X
4 ⭐
We Hunt The Flame
Elena Knows
Liliana's Invincible Summer
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Tom Lake
3.5 ⭐
All the Lovers in the Night
The God of Good Looks
3 ⭐
Bet on It
Practice Makes Perfect
The Wedding Date
2.5 ⭐
Shark Heart
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I needed these 3⭐ romances!
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This is a fantastic read. Mostly set in 1966 around the Black Power/Black Panther philosophy of the civil rights movement it also gave some background on many key players of the time. I am always shocked at the lack of knowledge that was handed down to us. This book was a well balanced and fair account of the time and the people who were affecting change. I app that Whitaker gave credit to the women you don't hear a lot about in other books👇
I have been reading this book that is mostly set in 1966 and have been in utter awe of Rudy Doris who not only wielded so much control in the SNCC but the civil rights movement at the time. And who was a pioneer in the Black Is Beautiful movement - wearing natural hair because it was easier to care for when she kept getting arrested for protesting. I am reading that she died at 26. What a powerful bright force she was so young.
I am always in awe of the civil rights leaders that do not get their due. At the front is Julian Bond who was involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Community (SNCC) and who fought in the Supreme Court to be able to verbally protest the Vietnam war. He was one of the first Black Georgia State representatives.
Directly behind him are Bob &Dottie Zellner who met working at SNCC, married and spent their lives on the front lines. I ❤️this 📷
The lack of history taught to us in schools always astounds me. The photo on the cover of this book was taken during a weeks long march through Mississippi in July of 1966. Referred to as the Meredith March for the man who started it and was shot before King and Carmichael joined him. The civil rights organizers went through hell during this time but managed to register 40,000 Black voters along the way.
The most interesting thing I am finding about the creation of the Black Panthers (and something that is so obvious) is his community based it was. The Black Power chant came from Reverend Willie Ricks who was warming up a crowd for MLK calling for Freedom Now and he change it up b/c it was not moving the crowd, he spat out Black Power and it got the job done, so later he took the chant to Carmichael who used it during a Miss. march.
A gorgeous day to learn about the Black Panthers.
I didn't know that the symbol of the BP was created at the direction of Stokley Carmichael because they needed an animal to be on the ballot for local elections, it was a law so that illiterate folks could vote. The symbol taken from an HBCU Clark University and created by a team of interracial women. This law is also why we have the Elephant and Donkey parties.
February: 10 books; $123.24 saved
Total: 14 = $222.02
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