#697 Mark Whitaker - 1966: Black Power: Saying it Loud!
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 107 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Mark Whitaker - 1966: Black Power: Saying it Loud!
The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series on radio and podcast. I'm Paul Vogelzang, and as part of our February Black History Month today's show is part of our Smithsonian Associates Black History Month author interview series, and we have an excellent program about Black History, Black Power and the Civil Rights movement. Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate, journalist, and author Mark Whitaker who has written the new book 'Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement'
Thank you so much for listening. We've got a great guest today with author Mark Whitaker, who is a journalist and author, and who, after reading his new book, 'Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement' I've been looking forward to speaking with him for a while. I'll introduce him in just a moment. But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 696th episode, when I spoke to 79-year-old author Rick Bleiweiss, who is the perfect example of the saying "you're never too old to follow your dreams." Two weeks ago, I spoke with author Susan Shapiro Barash about her Valentine's Day book 'A Passion for More: Affairs that Make Us or Break Us,' Wonderful subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com
Join us today as we talk with journalist and author Mark Whitaker for an exploration of the momentous year of 1966, in which a new sense of Black identity expressed in the slogan "Black Power" challenged the nonviolent civil rights philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis. Mark Whitaker will be appe
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series on radio and podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Paul Vogelzang. |
| 0:12.1 | And as part of our February Black History Month, today's show is part of our Smithsonian Associates Black History Month author interview series, |
| 0:21.6 | and we have an excellent program about black history, black power, |
| 0:25.6 | and the Civil Rights Movement from 1966. |
| 0:29.1 | Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate, journalist, and author Mark Whitaker, |
| 0:34.2 | who has written the new book, Saying It Loud, 1966, the Year Black Power |
| 0:40.2 | challenged the civil rights movement. |
| 0:43.2 | Thank you so much for listening today. |
| 0:44.9 | We have got a great guest today with author Mark Whitaker, who is a journalist and author |
| 0:49.8 | and who, after reading his new book, Saying It Loud, 1966, |
| 0:54.9 | the year Black Power challenged the civil rights movement. |
| 0:58.7 | I've been looking forward to speaking with him for a while. |
| 1:01.6 | I'll introduce him in just a moment, but quickly, if you missed any episodes, |
| 1:06.2 | last week was our 696th episode when I spoke to 79-year-old author, Rick Blyweiss, who is the perfect |
| 1:14.1 | example of the saying, you're never too old to follow your dreams. Two weeks ago, I spoke with |
| 1:20.2 | author Susan Shapiro Barish about her Valentine's Day book, A Passion for More, Affairs |
| 1:26.8 | That Make or Break Us. |
| 1:29.3 | Wonderful subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience. |
| 1:32.4 | If you miss those shows along with any others, you can go back and check about, |
| 1:36.5 | along with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you there on our website, |
| 1:41.2 | not old dash better.com. |
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