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The Black power movement or Black liberation movement emerged in mid-1960s from the civil rights movement in the United States, reacting against its moderate, mainstream, and incremental tendencies and representing the demand for more immediate action to counter White supremacy.
Revolutionary Action Movement (1962) Umbra (1963) Soulbook (1964) Black Arts Movement (1965) Watts riots (1965) Assassination of Malcolm X (1965) The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) Black Dialogue (1965) US Organization (1965)
Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for black people. [1] [2] It is primarily, but not exclusively, used in the United States by black activists and other proponents of what the slogan entails. [3]
Muhammad Ahmad (born Maxwell Curtis Stanford, Jr. on 31 July 1941), also known as Max Stanford, [a] is an American civil rights activist. He was a cofounder and the national chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), a Marxist–Leninist, [1] black power [2] organisation active from 1962 to 1968. [3]
Omali Yeshitela explained The Burning Spear Newspaper and its outgrowth from the Black Power Movement: "The Burning Spear was born out of struggle: out of the burning contradictions of the 60s that resulted in the Black Power Movement, and the reactions beatings, jailings, and murders by various US law officials. From the beginning, the Burning ...
The Black Power Revolution, also known as the Black Power Movement, 1970 Revolution, Black Power Uprising or February Revolution, was a period of political unrest in Trinidad and Tobago as a result of a series of actions spearheaded by Black power and left-wing political groups in the country aiming to achieve radical socio-political changes.
Black nationalism; Black Panther Party; Black Peoples Union; Black Power (New Zealand gang) Black Power in the Caribbean; Black power movement; Black Power Revolution; Black Power: The Politics of Liberation; Black pride; Black Radical Congress; Black Riders Liberation Party; Black Student Union; Black–brown unity; Blood in My Eye (book ...
The Black Economic Development Conference in Detroit in 1969 published a manifesto written by James Forman calling for a reparations to develop the Black community. It raised funds for a Detroit-based printing press and bookstore linked to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. In Minneapolis, there was an effort to establish a food coop on ...