What was the perspective of black power supporters on the successes and failures of the civil rights movement?

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Answer 1

Here is a site with links that should be useful:
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/power.htm
Check out Stokeley Carmichael.

PBS documentary on Civil Rights:
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/timeline/p_4.html

Answer 2

If you are looking to negotiate a bargin with someone always ask for more than youy expect, and if the issue is really serious, convience the opposition that there are real consequences to a failure to meet any and all of your demands.

Next consider the population ratio wherein Blacks as a Monority constituted about one in seven. That means given comparative efforts what Blacks could acheive in seven years of activism could in theory be dissolved in one year by the Ehite Majority.

All of that is theory but praxis shows a different picture. For example segregation forced Blacks to consolidate despite their differences and that made for strong leadership. The combined effect of Civil Rights in the form of equal access and oppertunity weakened that sense of loyalty to the point that we see now where there really is no Black leadership. Even more the superficial gains of the Civil Rights movement gave the less radical and less active ample excuse to abandon the struggle, which is not to say that all of the gains were superficial.

In Acedemia another distinction is that Black Studies became Afro-American Studies which has to a noted degree fed back into the racist notion that the history of Black Folk begins with slavery. Note also that token represtetation has led to a series of so-called black leaders who may have the colour but owe their positions to the white establishment & thereby prove perplexing to the younger generations.

I will end my comments here by also pointing out that the combined effects are worsened by the realization that the real history, theroies and political thinking of the more radical minds of that era will probably never be told and trust me there were in facxt many great mind at work then!