{"product_id":"9780465020874","title":"Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama","description":"The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In \u003ci\u003eDark Days, Bright Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60s—particularly the tumultuous period after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act—to be the catalyst of a movement that culminated in the inauguration of Barack Obama.\u003cp\u003eJoseph argues that the 1965 Voting Rights Act burst a dam holding back radical democratic impulses. This political explosion initially took the form of the Black Power Movement, conventionally adjudged a failure. Joseph resurrects the movement to elucidate its unfairly forgotten achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through the lives of activists, intellectuals, and artists, including Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Amiri Baraka, Tupac Shakur, and Barack Obama, \u003ci\u003eDark Days, Bright Nights\u003c\/i\u003e will make coherent a fraught half-century of struggle, reassessing its impact on American democracy and the larger world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121759797488,"sku":"9780465020874","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780465020874_p0.jpg?v=1763705544","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780465020874","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}