The Black Power Movement
New Civil Rights Issues
Bellwork K-W-L
1. K-W-L (with partners) What do you know about the Black Power Movement?
2. Think-Pair-Share with your neighbors.
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
"Message from a Black Man"
Message From A Black Man - The Temptations
Impatient with the slow gains of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Movement, many young African Americans called for "Black Power."
Black Power: the belief that African Americans should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle.
New Ideas
- Urban young African Americans began to turn away from King
- Called for more aggressive forms of protest
- Ranged from armed self-defense to promoting "black separatism"
- Belief that African Americans ALONE should lead their struggle
Stokely Carmichael
Leader of the SNCC in 1966
Malcolm X
Symbol of the Black Power Movement
Black Panthers
Advocated for Revolution in USA
Primary Source Cooperative Learning Project
Primary Source:
First hand accounts of events, people, or places.
Some examples of primary sources are JOURNALS, LETTERS, PHOTOGRAPHS, ARTIFACTS, AND ORAL HISTORIES.