A detailed summary of the Black Power Movement, including a breakdown of each important organisation, a summary of the famous icons involved in the movement and a timeline and brief summary of the events that took place.
BLACK POWER MOVEMENT
name: who: what: goals
the Black Bobby Influenced by Malcolm Become involved in
Panther Seale and X and communist the worldwide non-
Party Huey revolutionaries like white working class
Newton Mao Zedong struggle
Radical methods, Improve ghetto life
prepared to use Police brutality:
violence “police the police”
Carried guns on them Self-help clinic in the
Involved in city rioting ghettos
Prepared to work with - successful
revolutionary white Jobs and proper
groups housing
Nationalistic Class unity
Emphasized class Financial
unity compensation for
Black Panther: slavery
defends himself Create black juries
violently if he is for black criminals
attacked, but is not Exempt blacks from
the aggressor military service
Black berets and 10 point program
leather paramilitary Free breakfast for
jackets children
Raised fists and Distributed clothes
carried law books to needy people
Slogan: “burn, baby, Lessons in first aid,
burn” an ambulance
Attracted unemployed response program
youth, college and a drug
graduates and rehabilitation
students program
FBI targeted them and Organized transport
by 1970 most of their f0r poor families who
members were wanted to visit their
arrested or in prison relatives in prison
Gave self-defense
classes and lessons
on politics
SNC Student Stokely radical
C Nonviolent Carmicha later joined with the
Coordinating el Black Panthers and
committee formed the Black
Panther Party for Self-
Defense
took up the notion of
, black power with a
clenched fist
OAA Organization Malcom X established good encouraged African
U of African- relations with non- Americans to vote,
American Muslim black to participate in the
Unity Americans political system and
peaceful relations with to work with each
whites other and
sympathetic white
and Hispanic people
the Nation of Elijah Strictly not a black a nation within a
Islam Muhamm power group, but nation – separatism
ad more separatist set up temples in the
- Believ Focused on black ghettos – alternative
ed he pride, self-reliance, to white Christianity
was a separatism, militant put money into
prophe opposition etc. black-owned
t of whites were enemies restaurants, bakeries
Allah and grocery stores
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Black Panthers 1o point program (goals):
1. jobs
2. proper housing
3. exclusion from military service
4. eliminating police brutality
5. halting the exploitation of black people
by white people
6. the release of all black Americans from
prison
7. the right of black people to be tried by
juries composed of black people only
8. “freedom”
9. “land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace”
10. A referendum for black people to determine whether they wanted to
stay in America or form their own country
Organizations:
Common aims: black self-esteem, emphasizing separatism and
nationalism
- Encouraging blacks to improve their economic situation
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