Black Power
In 1966, a vast, intriguing movement blossomed out of the Civil Rights Movement nicknamed “Black power” until full categorized as the Black Power Movement. Stokely Carmichael, former leader of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) introduced the term “black power” in a rally in Mississippi. The movement itself tied its roots from the philosophy of the UNA, which was developed by Marcus Garvey. One can infer the Black Power Movement, was a positive movement because it came out of the Civil Rights Movement and had the vision “fundamentally altered struggles for racial justice through an uncompromising quest for social, political, and cultural transformation. (Joseph) It also had the same vocal points as the Civil Rights Movement, and “ coming to terms with the black power movement contradictions, shortcomings, and achievements may move us one step closer to finally making peace with the 1960’s” ( Joseph 716). This quote therefore depicts how one can conclude that the Black Power Movement benefited the United States, in similar but slightly different ways as the Civil Rights movement.
During the 1950’s through 1970’s America was going through a such racial segregation from such examples as “Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas” (1954), Montgomery bus Boycott, and the Civil Rights Movement. The movement affected the country because it gave a uprising to African Americans, in which they strived for political, economic, and cultural power. Many racial southern activists had a bias social view, in which they saw ways differently. They believed blacks were less superior and they should not have a high power of social class. It affected the country because it caused a uprising and some black activists in the Black Power Movement resorted to violence. Such groups as the KKK targeted many high power activists in which soon violence was raised and groups such as the Black Panther Party; was a group that soon resorted to violence. Stokely Carmichael
During the 1950’s through 1970’s America was going through a such racial segregation from such examples as “Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas” (1954), Montgomery bus Boycott, and the Civil Rights Movement. The movement affected the country because it gave a uprising to African Americans, in which they strived for political, economic, and cultural power. Many racial southern activists had a bias social view, in which they saw ways differently. They believed blacks were less superior and they should not have a high power of social class. It affected the country because it caused a uprising and some black activists in the Black Power Movement resorted to violence. Such groups as the KKK targeted many high power activists in which soon violence was raised and groups such as the Black Panther Party; was a group that soon resorted to violence. Stokely Carmichael
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