Black Power Essay

“Black Power” is a slogan that was first used by Stockley Carmichael in June 1966 during a civil rights march in Mississippi. That slogan gave a struggling generation a reason to have pride, to love themselves and the following generations from America. The children and grandchildren of people who were involved in the “Civil Rights Movement” started the actual “Black Power Movement”. These youngsters were tired of being non violent and seeing their family members get persecuted and jailed because they knew that should have been treated equal. These young adults and college students said that they would not be spat on anymore and completely dropped the ideology of turning the other cheek. From this way of thinking several non white militias were formed. BPP (Black Panther Party) being the most known and radical of their time began to police the urban areas and ghettos to prevent police brutality on non-white protestors. The BPP felt they had to do what the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) was afraid to do. The black community were really getting their point across to the white community that it was time for change and there would be no regression. This was what “Black Power” was all about, and from this many.
Not all blacks had been equally impressed with the civil rights movement. MALCOLM X and the NATION OF ISLAM, for example, felt that racial self-determination was a critical and neglected element of true equality. By the mid-1960s, dissatisfaction with the pace of change was growing among blacks. The term "black power" had been around since the 1950s, but it was STOKELY CARMICHAEL, head of the STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC), who popularized the term in 1966. Carmichael led a push to transform SNCC from a multiracial community activist organization into an all-black social change organization. Late in 1966, two young men, HUEY NEWTON and BOBBY SEALE, formed the BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF-DEFENSE (BPP),...