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Page 14 71,1 Portland Observer Black Histoiy Month February 24, 2010 ENÏITTAINMENI Historic Civil Rights Chronicled Book looks at more radical leaders J ake T homas T he P ortland O bserver Pcniel E. Joseph, a historian at Tufts University, makes the ease that the black power move ment o f the 1960s had a far greater influence on the struggle for equal rights than is more commonly given in black history accounts in his book “Dark Day, B right N ights: From Black Power to Barack Obama.” Following the lives o f Malcolm X, who rose to prominence in the Nation o f Islam and later adopted a more conciliatory tone, and Stokely Carmichael, a longtime organizer who rose to become chair o f the Student Non-violent by Advertise with diversity in C all 503-288-0033 Coordinating Committee, Joseph makes the case that the more radical black power movements had a further reach than was previously suspected. “ Black Power rem ains the m ost m isu n d e rsto o d so cial m ovem ent o f the postw ar era. It was dem onized as the civil rights m ovem ent’s ‘evil tw in ’ and stereotyped as a politics o f rage practiced by gun-toting Black P anthers,” w rites Jo seph. 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