Black power and black panther

The meredith marhc

• James Meredith was the first black American student to enter the University of Mississippi

• to encourage black voters to register

why was it significant

• Drew national attention to the deep divisions within the civil rights movement

• insisted on the exclusion of white from the march, King refused to agreeThe Studentt nNonviolento ordinating committee (SNCC) helped desegregation lunch counters

• vote to expel all whites from SNCC

• a call for Black Americanstake over white-owned stores in black ghettos

• Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) helped annual conferences to endorse the idea of black power

The black panthers

• Established October 1966

• most radical black organisation

• Heirs of malcom x

• advocated for self-defence

• admired communist revolutionaries

• demanded reparations for the persecution of whites

• wanted blacks to be exempt from the compulsory services

• had aten-pointt programme

Ghetto programmes

• won support among many ghetto residents

• 40 clinics advising on health, welfare and legal rights

• ran breakfast programmes

police bruitality

• stockpiled weapons for self-defence and tailed the police in hopes of exposing their brutality

• Targeted the police and the FBI

• famous case of the Chicago 8, who were arrested for conspiring to incite a riot at the democratic national convention

evaluating the blakc panthers

• The tail of the FBI

• Hundreds were imprisoned

• 1972 - BP was i decline due to raids by obythe FBI

• Association of violence alienated many blacks

• max 5000 members

• attracted media attention

The decline of Black power

• ill-defined and poorly organised

• secist

• unrealistic

• hostility of white authority

significance

• alternative to the non-violent method

• damaged previous civil rights

• played a part in encouraging some white supporters of affirmative action

• helped inspire radical native American women and Hispanic people