Black Power
Sixties liberation cry
Black Power is a political movement and slogan that emerged among African Americans in the 1960s, emphasizing racial pride, self-determination, and the building of Black political and economic institutions independent of white control.
The phrase crystallized a shift from integration-focused civil rights activism toward demands for autonomy and collective power: Black Power!
the Black Power movement.
The raised fist became its iconic gesture.
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
- militancyCombative advocacy stance
- raised fistClenched hand elevated defiantly
Angela Davis · Malcolm X · 1960s · Oakland · community programs · police brutality · systemic racism
African-centered cultural framework
- natural hairUnchemically treated locks
- dashikiOrnate West African pullover
- self-respectValuing one's own worth
- dignityInnate personal worth
heritage · identity · African ancestry · empowerment · consciousness · reclamation · uplift · affirmation
Signing up for elections
- political representationElected officials acting for constituents
- self-governanceIndependent management of affairs
- community controlResidents governing their area
- grassroots organizingLocal citizen-led collective action
reparations · economic justice · policy reform · coalition building · political mobilization
Huey Newton
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
- militancyCombative advocacy stance
Angela Davis · Malcolm X · raised fist · 1960s · Oakland · community programs · police brutality · systemic racism
Afrocentrism
African-centered cultural framework
- natural hairUnchemically treated locks
- dashikiOrnate West African pullover
- self-respectValuing one's own worth
dignity · heritage · identity · African ancestry · empowerment · consciousness · reclamation · uplift · affirmation · kente cloth
voter registration
Signing up for elections
- political representationElected officials acting for constituents
- self-governanceIndependent management of affairs
- community controlResidents governing their area
grassroots organizing · reparations · economic justice · policy reform · coalition building · political mobilization
- Black HistoryMartin Luther King Jr., MLK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
- social movementscivil rights movement, women's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- 70s Activismantiwar movement, boycotts, Cesar Chavez, consciousness raising, Earth Day
- American MovementsFreedom Riders, Sons of Liberty, Underground Railroad, Wobblies, Beat Generation
- Black DiasporaAfrican American, African Americans, African diaspora, African heritage, African roots
Black Powergradualism
Philosophy of incremental change
nonviolent resistance · color-blindness · Booker T. Washington · turn the other cheek · passive resistance
Black Powerwhite supremacy
Doctrine of racial superiority
white nationalism · Ku Klux Klan · Jim Crow · neo-Nazism · segregationism
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