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Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama (Peniel L. Joseph, BH) Section- Confederate Officers Union cavalry moved out afterby Peniel E. Joseph 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 Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60sparticularly the tumultuous period after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Actto be the catalyst of a movement that culminated in the inauguration of Barack Obama. Joseph argues that the 1965