black power in English

noun
1
a movement in support of rights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
Tony's story parallels that of his brother, Colin, and the militants of the local Black Power movement, campaigning against police harassment and state racism.

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1. Black power is from 1966, associated with Stokely Carmichael

2. Black power is from 1966, associated with Stokely Carmichael

3. We were not ready to abandon the Black Power movement.

4. Black Power began as revolutionary movement in the 1960s and 1970s

5. Tee shirts had the black power fist, Angela Davis and Che Guevara printed on them.

6. Did anybody in my milieu have any understanding of racial justice, of the need for black power?

7. When the Afro emerged in the 1960s during the 'Black Power' era, the Conk fell out of popularity.

8. 23 All these fellers screaming black power yet when was the last time one of them purchased airfare to the dark continent.

9. But in Carmichael's speeches and in his landmark 1967 book, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, he persuasively argued that the term implied black inferiority.

10. The Blaxploitation movies of the 1970s emerged out of the civil rights and Black Power movements and represented the first real explosion of American cinema dominated by, for, and about

11. This entry was posted on June 21, 2009 at 6:14 pm and is filed under Everything Afrikan with tags Activism, Africa, Afrika, Afrocentric, Black History, Black Power, Education, Marcus Garvey

12. Stokely Carmichael, original name of Kwame Ture, (born June 29, 1941, Port of Spain, Trinidad—died November 15, 1998, Conakry, Guinea), West-Indian-born civil rights activist, leader of Black nationalism in the United States in the 1960s and originator of its rallying slogan, “Black power.”