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Black Power Movement in the Caribbean
Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 2290 Includes: Early Expressions of Black Power | Black Power Movements in the 1960s and 1970s | Contemporary Developments in Caribbean Black Power | BibliographyPolitical and cultural activism that emerged throughout the Caribbean during the twentieth century. Building on intellectual currents of the late 1800s, and a centuries-old struggle by people of African descent against racial oppression, the core objective of the Black Power Movement in the Caribbean was the mobilization and independent organization of blacks in pursuit of economic, political, and cultural self-determination.The early 1900s saw the convergence of several political and intellectual currents—most notably Pan-Africanism, nationalism, and Marxism—that shaped black resistance and set the foundations for the Black Power Movement. These tendencies were manifested by intellectual and political leaders as well as by mass-based religious and artistic movements. At the time, most Caribbean nations were still under the direct political ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 925Political movement expressing a new racial consciousness among blacks in the United States in the late 1960s. Black Power represented both a conclusion to the decade's Civil Rights Movement and a reaction against the racism that persisted despite the efforts of black activists during the early 1960s. Black Power was influential mainly in the late 1960s.The meaning of Black Power was debated vigorously while the movement was in progress. To some it represented blacks' insistence on racial dignity and self-reliance, which was usually interpreted as economic and political independence, as well as freedom from white authority.These themes had been advanced most forcefully in the early 1960s by Malcolm X, the articulate and controversial black Muslim leader. He argued that blacks should focus on improving their own communities ...
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Source: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Word Count: 9See Black Nationalism. ...
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Word Count: 5782By 1966 the impatience and frustration of some African American activists with what they perceived as the glacier-pace of the Civil Rights Movement was beginning to air publicly and frequently. For years, Americans had watched the peaceful protests and nonviolent demonstrations encouraged by leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. facing the brutality of white mobs and the violent injustice of corrupt state– and local law enforcement. Civil Rights activists were routinely arrested and denied counsel, beaten, threatened, and even murdered. In May of 1961 the Freedom Ride from Washington, D.C., was attacked and firebombed outside Anniston, Alabama. In June 1964 three civil rights workers—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner—were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Many in the African American community had seen their fill of violence. ...
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