Black Power Movement Usa

Cultural Diversity barren regent(postnominal)ness From the start of our country African Americans had been beneath white lodge. The civic rights movement of the south put an end to segregation and gave African Americans the equal rights as an Anglo American leg exclusivelyy. Racism and relentless segregation were still rattling much alive though, and if African Americans were ever to be treated as equals they would need to liberate from white society and truly vest themselves. This was the bootleg Power Movement. The movement for nigrify Power started during the civil rights movement in the 1960s.The movement was make up of several different organizations and spoke persons with a variety of ideas and views differing from that of Martian Luther might and the civil rights movement. They matte that the civil rights movement to end segregation was not enough and many black power advocates spurned the civil rights movements ultimate intention of assimilation. They believed t hat white racism and institutional discrimination would al musical modes be a part of American culture and society, and did not want to be integrated into the very system that for centuries oppressed, denigrated, and profligate blacks.The ignominious Power movement was built around ideas of racial pride and Black Nationalism with groupings work to increase African American control over schools, police force enforcement, welf ar programs, and other public run in black communities. They matt-up that to be equal they must liberate and truly empower themselves on in that respect own terms in order to gain power and stand up to the rife group. Advocates of Black Power were open to the use of violence in order to achieve there goals, which was in direct contrast to the non-violent approach demonstrated by Martin Luther King jr. ,leader of the civil rights movement.The first popular use of the term Black Power as a social and political slogan came from Stokely Carmichael, an arra nger and spokesperson for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) a group associated with the civil rights movement. The SNCC was made up mainly of younger members who over time became more violent and outspoken in the belief of Black Nationalism. During the civil rights defect against Fear there was a division between those aligned with Martian Luther King jr. and those aligned with Stokely Carmichael each having there own respective slogans of Freedom Now and Black Power.During the March a man by the name of James Meredith was gunned down and Carmichael is quoted in saying This is the ordinal time I have been arrested and I aint going to jail no more The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin now is Black Power From so on the SNCC was for the Black Power movement and Black separatism from whites. The goal of Black Nationalism was withal held by the Black Muslims a religious group under the Nation of Islam fighting for Black Power.The Black Muslims were a well known organization within the movement. They were angry, impatient, outspoken, and did more then just talk. There goal was to develop the black partnership frugalally in order to supply jobs and gain capital simply by using their own resources, which would help them deal with the white society from a more powerful position. One of the best leaders of the Black Muslims and of the Black Power movement was Malcolm X. He was a very well known and heard man who studied under Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam.Malcolm X believed in black independence from white society and brought his strong views against white racism and discrimination to the public plaza more so then maybe any other leader of the movement and became a expose figure to white America. Malcolm X was later assassinated in 1965 not due to conflicts with white society, notwithstanding due to conflicts within the Nation of Islam, specifically those de aling with leader Elijah Muhammad. The SNCC and Black Muslims looked at white society as one and in turn formed there own racism and prejudice to all whites and believed in Black separatism and Black Nationalism.The Black Panthers however were a well known group of the Black Power Movement and believed in neither Black separatism nor Black Nationalism. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seal, founders of the Black Panthers believed in creating a political group for the people, one that would stand up for the opposed against those who oppose them. They felt the national government not white society was holding them down and the get by for blacks came more from economic exploitation then from racism.Here is a quote from Bobby Seal as writing in his book take up The Time In our view it is a class struggle between the massive proletarian workings class and the small, minority ruling class. Working-class people of all colors must unite against the exploitative, dictatorial ruling class. So let me emphasize again we believe our fight is a class struggle and not a race struggle. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seal believed in something bigger, something along the lines of a revolution with the chroma of numbers and will power of the people leading the way.Newtown and Seal received much harassment from law enforcement because of this message, so much so that Newton was convicted of killing a police officer and thrown in prison causing much uproar in the legions people he stood up for. The Black Panthers are still very much alive today and continue to stand up for the people. Here is a statement from there website, We know now, more then ever before, that the will of the people is corkinger than the engineering science and repression of those who are against the interests of the people. Therefore we know that we can and will continue to serve and educate the people.All one-third of these groups had significant role in the black power movement and there anger and aggression b oth directly and indirectly helped pave the way for black politics. The National Black Political convention was held March 10-12 1972 in Gary, Indiana and was a huge milestone for black politicians to come and we now have a black man in office. In close, looking at the situation I feel there are both pros and cons. I believe the movement for Black Power helped open the worlds eyes to contrariety and inspired movements to come such as womens rights, red power, and gay/lesbian rights to name a few.The movement gave the black community a sense of pride to be black and helped cure the song left by years of slavery and segregation. In turn though this caused more racism both from blacks and whites alike due to such a strong emphasis on race and black segregation. This racism is still easy to see in present time, although the discrimination is definitely lower. I believe if the civil rights and Black Power movements could have worked as one, things would have turned out better for the b lack community overall.This is an image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two American track athletes who placed first and third one by one giving the Black Power salute on the podium at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. This caused great controversy and both were kicked out of the Olympic village and were expelled from the games by the IOC. Both men were booed by the meeting when they left the podium and Smith later stated If I win, I am American, not a black American. But if I did something bad, then they would say I am a Negro. We are black and we are proud of being black. Black America will understand what we did tonight.Bibliography . Black Panthers, www. BlackPanther. org . Black Muslims, http//www. infoplease. com/ce6/society/A0807794. html . Malcolm X, http//www. malcolmx. com/about/bio3. html . SNCC, http//mlk-kpp01. stanford. edu/index. php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_student_nonviolent_coordinating_committee_sncc/ . Black Power wikipedia, http//en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/Black_Power . In research of African America, http//www. hoover. archives. gov/exhibits/africanamerican/blackpower/index. html . Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class 5th edition Pg. 256-258 picpic