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Definition: Black Power from Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable

An emotive concept originating among certain sections of black opinion in the United States since 1966, whose advocates aim at redressing racial injustice by militant black nationalism that allows for violence and race war. See also Nation of Islam.

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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Movement towards black separatism in the USA during the 1960s, embodied in the Black Panther Party founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale . Its declared aim was the creation of a separate black state in the USA to be established by a black plebiscite under the aegis of the United Nations. Following a National Black Political Convention in 1972, a National Black Assembly was established to exercise pressure on the Democratic and Republican parties. The Black Power concept arose when existing civil-rights organizations, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, were perceived to be ineffective in producing significant change in the status of black people. Stokely Carmichael then advocated the exploitation of political and economic power and abandonment of nonviolence, with a move towards the type of separatism first developed by the Black Muslims . Such leaders as Martin Luther King rejected…
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The Black Power Movement was a radical grass-roots response to the perceived failure of the Civil Rights Movement, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to change social conditions that kept African Americans impoverished and disenfranchised a century after the abolition of slavery. Especially…
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From Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity & Culture
- Although first used by American black activists in the 1950s (Wright, 1954), the term ‘black power’ is more generally attributed to Stokely Carmichael, leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC), following its adoption as a slogan during the celebrated Mississippi civil rights…
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From Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Black Power was one of the most dynamic, captivating, and bold slogans of the twentieth century. It was also one of the era's most misunderstood and much-maligned mantras. Many whites believed Black Power to be synonymous with violence and black racism. According to sociologist Robert Blauner, …
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From Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
In 1966 Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture), coined the term “Black Power” during a period of incarceration in Greenwood, Mississippi. James Meredith had been conducting his Walk Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson that summer. A sniper had shot Meredith, the first African-American student to…
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From Dictionary of American Government and Politics
Black Power was a movement that was concerned with developing a sense of black consciousness in the United States. Supporters rejected the earlier ethnic term 'negro' which was associated by many white Americans with the idea of 'subservient niggers' and past humiliations. Many black leaders were…
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From The Reader's Companion to American History
Black power is an umbrella term used to describe the more militant aspects of the late 1960s civil rights movement. The term gained popularity in 1966 when Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, used it in a series of speeches. It became a rallying cry for…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Movement towards black separatism in the USA during the 1960s, embodied in the Black Panther Party founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale . Its declared aim was the creation of a separate black state in the USA to be established by a black plebiscite under the aegis of the United Nations. …
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From Encyclopedia of African-American Politics
After the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement is the most important political phenomenon in the 20th-century history of African-American politics. In its origins, evolution, and consequences, the movement known as black power had profound and enduring consequences on the cultural, …
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fl. late 1960s Influential from 1960 to 1976, the Black Power movement was a conscious endeavor to liberate the blacks from white political, social, and cultural institutional clutches. As a radical political philosophy, the Black Power movement advocated ethnic integrity, self-sufficiency, and…
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