black power

Phrase was popularised by Stokely Carmicheal SNCC Chairman cried blackpower in Greenwood Mississippi

Social	Political	Economic
Long Hot Summers 1964-68 Watts riots in Los Angeles, resulted in 34 deaths and up to 1000 injuries with $40 million damage done to the	1966 Black Panther Party for Self defence was established in Oakland, California by Huey Newton	Black panthers demanded the compensation of slavery to Black Americans
238 race riots followed suit	Inspired by Che Guevera and Mao Zedong	Freedom for Incarcerated Black Americans, who should only be jailed after trial by Black Jury
MLK Jr drew attention to ghetto	Anti-communist propoganda ensured that sympathy for the poor was equated with sympathy fro communist doctrines	Black power movement unlike the first wave civil rights movement lacked centralised organisations and significant fund raising, and with the alienation of white liberals funding suffered
CORE established freedom houses in ghettos	Poor organisation and had varying amounts of ideology
SNCC after adopting Stokely Carmicheal, joined black panthers and advocated for armed self defence	Nixon admnsitration saw black panthers as domestic terrorists and used FBI to dismantle and destroy the organisation	NUL aimed to give AA economic independence and received $28 million from the Nixon Administration
Black Power in automotive industry from 1968-69 workers unionised across the industry	Wilmington Ten FBI bribed jurors to convict harsher sentences including use of Ku Klux Klan members
Black Power was a modern resurgence of the Civil rights fight and many of the Older generations of civil rights activists felt that it was too aggressive and uncompromising
Black power was amorphous as it spread from black capitalism and liberations to black seperatism
Black panthers requested exemption of blacks from Military service
Established Ghetto clinics in Oakland, New York, Boston and Chicago. Promoting Health, Welfare and legal rights
With the rise of second wave feminism in the late 1960’s the black male power advocates like louis farrakhan and stokely carmicheal where seen more transparently for their sexism which alienated many white liberal women and black women both populations composed major parts of the movement