Black Power Movement
The movement formally arrived in Jackson, Mississippi, at the capitol, but grew out of six years of cumulative anger on the part of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The Black Power Movement also known as the 1970’s Revolution was an attempt by people with varied interests to make plain the issues which the leaders of the day failed to address. It all started in October of 1968 when hundreds of university students and supporters led by the National Joint Action Commission (NJAC). Malcolm X, 'Black Muslim ' group, Black Panthers. Groups like the Black Panthers and Malcolm X which had an ideology that leaned toward Black Nationalism and equality by any means necessary. The Black Power Movement set out to address these issues of unemployment, underemployment and worker exploitation. Has the Black Power movement progressed along, more alliances where sought out. Unemployed men and women and sectors of the strategic work force were the first to join the movement.
They demanded justice by force if necessary whereas King’s ideologies work within the system and had a totally non-violent doctrine. Their main target was major intuitions controlled by imperialist powers which were, the U.S.A, Canada and Britain and the People’s National Movement (PMN). It was said that the People’s National Movement had been in power for the last fourteen years and the country had still not experienced the transformation in the economic structure that the party had promised during the elections. The Black Power Revolution began with a 1970 Carnival band named Pinetoppers whose presentation entitled The “Truth about Africa” included portrayals of “Revolutionary Heroes” including Fidel Castro, Stokely Carmichael and Tubal Uriah Butler.
The Black Power Movement instilled a sense of racial pride and self-esteem in blacks. Protests were taking place in many different Caribbean countries and in Trinidad they grew into a national movement including, not only
They demanded justice by force if necessary whereas King’s ideologies work within the system and had a totally non-violent doctrine. Their main target was major intuitions controlled by imperialist powers which were, the U.S.A, Canada and Britain and the People’s National Movement (PMN). It was said that the People’s National Movement had been in power for the last fourteen years and the country had still not experienced the transformation in the economic structure that the party had promised during the elections. The Black Power Revolution began with a 1970 Carnival band named Pinetoppers whose presentation entitled The “Truth about Africa” included portrayals of “Revolutionary Heroes” including Fidel Castro, Stokely Carmichael and Tubal Uriah Butler.
The Black Power Movement instilled a sense of racial pride and self-esteem in blacks. Protests were taking place in many different Caribbean countries and in Trinidad they grew into a national movement including, not only