Black Power
Casey Hollar
Background info
- The term of "Black power" was first used by an African American named Paul Rodeson, from as early as 1957 to describe the political potential of blacks
- Applied to civil rights organizations, black power means that leadership, planning, and the implementation of policy should logically be in the hands of blacks
- This allowed modifications of organizations' long-commitment to nonviolence that were in favor of a new policy of self-defense if one is attacked
- increasing concentrations of blacks threaten the old political arrangement
About Organizations
- "Snick" was a civil rights organization in the United States during the 1960's, originally consisted of black and white college students
- SNCC organized peaceful protests and demonstrations to speed desegregation in the south
Protesting
- After slow progress being made through nonviolent protests, Stokely Carmichael called for a campaign to achieve Black power and to fight the "white power" that had oppressed blacks
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored people helped direct the fight for equal rights and opportunities for blacks
- This also caused opposing aggressive aspects of the Black Power doctrine