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Article: 'Hour' revisits time of radicals.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 18, 2006
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Byline: Duane Davis, Special to the News
I turned to Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, with great eagerness, having witnessed, albeit at a safe distance, some of the upheavals and cataclysms that unfold in these pages.
Less than a year out of the Army and back in college, I happened to be in Chicago the weekend after Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968. I saw no rioting; instead, I witnessed something far eerier: the streets into downtown Chicago were empty except for the rumble of olive green trucks carrying National Guard troops and jeeps and half-track tanks mounted with ...