Black Power Movement

Black Power movement
Part of Black Power
Black Panther founders standing guard with shotguns
Date	1960s – 1970s
Location	United States
Result	Collapse of many insurgent groups Anti-Racist legislation Spread of Black Power worldwide Foundation of the New Black Panther Party in 1989
Parties to the civil conflict
Black Power gangs Black P. Stones Black Guerrilla Family Black Power militants Black Liberation Army Black Panthers Black Revolutionary Assault Team George Jackson Brigade JBAKC M19CO MOVE Symbionese Liberation Army US Organization Weather Underground White Panthers Supporting organizations CPUSA NBPP SNCC Government of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation COINTELPRO Municipal Police

Black Power gangs

Black Power militants

Government of the United States

The Black Power movement was a political movement to achieve a form of Black Power and the many philosophies it contains. The movement saw various forms of activism some violent and some peaceful, all hoping to achieve black empowerment. The Black Power movement also represented socialist movements, all with the general motivation of improving the standing of black people in society. Originated in the aftershock of the Civil Rights movement, some doubted the philosophy of the movement begging for more radical action, taking influences from Malcolm X. The cornerstone of the movement was the Black Panther Party, a Black Power organization dedicated to socialism and the use of violence to achieve it. The Black Power movement developed in the criticisms of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, and over time and into the 1970s, the movement grew and became more violent. After years of violence, many left the movement and the police began arresting violent actors in the movement. The Black Power movement also spilled out into the Caribbean creating the Black Power Revolution.

The first popular use of the term "Black Power" as a social and racial slogan was by Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and Willie Ricks (later known as Mukasa Dada), both organizers and spokespersons for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). On June 16, 1966, in a speech in Greenwood, Mississippi after the assassination attempt on James Meredith by Aubrey James Norvell during the March Against Fear, Stokely Carmichael used the term.