Black Power and Stokely Carmichael?

Question

I'm working on some history homework, and I had to read an article written by Stokely Carmichael in which he described the philosophy of the Black Power slogan. We have to summarize and state the significance of the article- is it significant for anything other than being radical?

Answer 1

Yes! For decades the African-Americans in the country have been caught in a web of Jim Crow laws and segregation. Even after Brown vs. Board equality and integration was not happening naturally, it was going to have to be forced. The whites in areas of the country were simply not willing to open up the doors of equality.

The Black Panthers, "Power to the People", "The Revolution has come, time to pick up a gun" offered blacks in the USA a sense of pride, accomplishment, power and self-determination. In a lot of ways it didn't achieve much, but pride is a touch thing to measure.

Answer 2

The Black Power movement in this country was fundametally supported by the rise of the New Left in the Democratic Party, along with the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society).

Throughout the 1960s the Soviet Union funded a number of radical groups in American including the Civil Rights Movement, American Indian Movement; Caesar Chavez and the Lettuce Pickers Movement, and the SDS student radicals and also including the BlackStone Rangers and other Afro-American protesters. This was exposed in the releasing of the Soviet Archives at the end of the cold war and in the Venona Decrypts. Notice how since the collapse of the Soviet Union these groups do not exist today? 'Cause they're not being funded anymore!

Answer 3

Stokey Carmichael was involved in civil rights movements in the 1960's. Mr. Carmichael is an Afro American who believes that there should be a separation between of the white and black races. He was a member of student nonviolent coordinating committee which tried to integrate bus terminals and register blacks to votes. He is a member of the Black Panther Party.

Answer 4

Anyone who thinks his prostate cancer is caused by the CIA is an idiot.

Answer 5

haha funny report. idk