When Did it began?
Started by Stokely Carmichael
Carmichael felt this movement was not just a movement for racial desegregation, but rather a movement to help end how American racism had weakened blacks
He said, "'Black Power' means black people coming together to form a political force and either electing representatives or forcing their representatives to speak their needs."
Carmichael felt this movement was not just a movement for racial desegregation, but rather a movement to help end how American racism had weakened blacks
He said, "'Black Power' means black people coming together to form a political force and either electing representatives or forcing their representatives to speak their needs."
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"...Black Power can best be understood as a striving for evolutionary changes within the civil rights movement that would replace integration with black power and a passive, common ground rhetoric with militant, confrontational rhetoric better suited to his generation, growing disaffection with the movement, and the search of black Americans."