Black Power
Randy Johnson
WGST 591
Reaction Paper: Black Power
"Black power" was not a term Kwame Ture, Stokely Carmichael, coined. He did however make it popular in 1966 while giving his speech on a college campus in California. It is a very powerful term that was easy to unify behind in those oppressive years of the sixties. The term itself was empowering and uplifting for the black community. Once the black community was awakened, the white community started paying more attention also.
SNCC wanted black people to have their own independent political parties; this is what black power meant to them. Whites, for and against the cause, were frightened by this desire for racially united parties. As you stated this was no new idea, but in fact an old one that started to materialize. SNCC realized this could only work in areas were the black population was large enough to win an election. SNCC started to be looked at somewhat militantly when Ture came to be the head of the......
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