Freedom's Children storyboard
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- What happened?
- We want to be equal!
- Who was involved?
- Floyd McKissick
- Malcolm X
- When did it happen?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The black power movement was a social movement motivated by a desire for safety and self-sufficiency that was not available inside redlined African American neighborhoods.
- Where did it happen?
- Malcolm X: Challenged the mainstream civil rights movement.Floyd McKissick: Became leader of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality.
- Why did it happen?
- 1960By the late 1960s, Black Power came to represent the demand for more immediate violent action to counter American white supremacy.
- How did it happen?
- It began after Stokely Carmichael saw the concept of "Black Power" as a means of solidarity between individuals within the movement.
- The black power movement was caused by perceived failures of the civil rights movement and the turn towards militancy.
- It began because of the riots of 1964 and 1965 coupled with the assassination of Malcolm X. A split occurred between the non-violent points of view and those who wanted more radical, aggressive policy was characterized by the slogan "Black Power".
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