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During the peak of the Black power movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many African Americans adopted "Afro" hairstyles, African clothes, or African names (such as Stokely Carmichael, the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who popularized the phrase "Black power" and later changed his name to Kwame Ture) to ...
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]
Institute of the Black World; Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. Weather Underground; Gaston County v. United States; Executive Order 11478; Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education; 1969 York race riot; Allen v. State Board of Election; Revised Philadelphia Plan; Wells v. Rockefeller; National Conference of Black Political Scientists ...
Black genocide conspiracy theory; Black Guerrilla Family; Black is beautiful; Black Liberators; Black Lives Matter; Black Music Action Coalition; 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 ...
Drawing inspiration from the African-American civil rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the anti-apartheid movement, young British Asian activists began a number of anti-racist youth movements against "Paki-bashing", including the Bradford Youth Movement in 1977, the Bangladeshi Youth Movement following the murder of Altab Ali in ...
The PPP in power espoused a politics of left-wing nationalism, calling for national unity and economic prosperity as a means of recovering from the socially and economically catastrophic losses of the 1971 war. [20] [28] Immediately, a nationalization process was initiated by the Peoples Party following a 1972 labour unrest. [29]
The Lawyers' Movement, also known as the Movement for the Restoration of Judiciary or the Black Coat Protests, was the popular mass protest movement initiated by the lawyers of Pakistan in response to the former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf's actions of 9 March 2007 when he unconstitutionally suspended Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court.
The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in Urdū Lashkari Zaban ("Battalionese language") title in Nastaliq script.. The Urdu movement was a socio-political movement aimed at making Urdu (the standardized register of the Hindustani language) the universal lingua-franca and symbol of the cultural and political identity of the Muslim communities of the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj.