Power and Passion: An Epic Novel of the 1960S - Paperbackby Donald Miller (Author) Diane Howard holds a strange secret that not even she understands. As the great great granddaughter of abolitionist general Oliver Otis Howard, the contemporary student believes it is her calling to address the unresolved issues of Jim Crow left over from her ancestor's time. Though African American progress has been in hibernation for a century she witnesses its resurgence in her time. But even more intriguing, whenever her