WK - Black Power

what legislation could black power have influenced?

equal economic opportunities act 1964

affirmative action

what did BP argue about unions priorities?

that they prioritised whites

when was the league of revolutionary black women founded ? where ?

1969 in detriot

what and when was the memphis sanitation strike?

1968, influenced by black power ideas

what did black power activists support in the south to do with labour rights?

they campaigned against exploitive conditions for poor black and white labourers

name 2 unions that started affirmative action programmes?

united steelworkers of america

united auto workers

what did the violence and millitancy of black power mean for support?

loss of support from blacks and whites

how were divisions caused by black power movement?

they put emphasis on the differences between blacks and whites

what were black power movement more concerned with?

poverty rather than labour rights

how many points of the BPP programme was to do with economic position?

1 out of 10

what did BP focus on rather than class unity?

racial identity