Rise of Black Power Movement

Over-reliance on white concessions

Oppositional forces to this approach included Malcolm X and others who shared a similar attraction to Garveyism and Black Separatism

Rate of change

Change effeted by CRM did little to improve the lives of those in the North and midwest

Democrats

Perception that Democrats were not fully on board with more radical concerns of the movement

LBJ’s known connections to Southern white supremacists

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Unemployment

Result of increased automation after 1950s economic boom

46% of unemployed Americans were blac in early 1960s

Ghettoes

32% of ghetto children finished high school, compared to 56% of white children

Fundamentally

Black Power comes about due to te iaction of White government and inability Black non-violent groups to solve the ghetto problem