What Does Black Power Mean?
Stokely Carmichael gave a speech in Greenwood, Mississippi in which the slogan "Black Power" was first brother to light. Created from the frustration felt by the black communities toward a society who disregarded their civil rights and denying the things they wanted. Marth Luther King initially thought the term would be good for the civil rights movement but quickly saw the danger of the back lash it actually created and asked for Stokely to not use the term. "Black Power" only facilitated in dividing whites and blacks even more. The white communities were easily frighten by white supremacist groups like the KKK, who used the term to demonstrate the violent intention of the black activist group. As for the black communities, the