BLACK POWER MOVEMENT

Black Power Movement

Abstract

Carmichael was the first to present an intellectual analysis of the newly formed Black Power ideology and movement. He broadly defined the movement in his piece Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, co-written with Charles V. Hamilton, a professor of political science at Roosevelt University.

Table of Contents

Abstract2

Introduction4

Discussion5

Political Impact7

Current Situation10

Conclusion11

References13

Black Power Movement

Introduction

The impact of the Black Power Movement in the United States has been vastly under-estimated in both the scholarly literature on movement outcomes as well as in popular understanding. This is in part due to the way that social movement scholars conceptualize institutionalization largely as a process of bringing movements into the state. This, however, ignores the ways that movements get brought into other institutions. This paper examines the rise of black professional associations in the Black Power Era as a direct outcome of the Black Power Movement.

Organized black activists encountered political repression at the local, national, and international level. Yet the movements impact on American history, its successes, failures, and shortcomings, as well as it contemporary legacy, remain undervalued and understudied (Franklin and Alfred Moss, Jr. 2000).

Black Power is a motto and a political term which is associated with various ideologies (Franklin and Alfred Moss, Jr. 2000). This slogan is used by social activists in order to defend the rights of Negros all over the world, particularly by the Afro-American (Franklin and Alfred Moss, Jr. 2000). The social movement of Black Power strongly existed in U.S. culture throughout the decades of 60's and 70's, stressing ethnic arrogance and the introduction of ethnic and governmental establishments to fight and encourage the combined concerns of Afro-American nationals, to encourage their significance, and assure their liberty (Franklin and Alfred Moss, Jr. 2000).

Discussion

Generally viewing civil rights as a moral and political good, with many arguing that, despite all of its notable achievements, the struggle for racial justice remains incomplete. On this score, civil rights historiography has developed into one of the richest and most prolific subfields of American history (Joseph 2006). Black Power is too often portrayed as a temporary eruption that existed outside the confines of American history. That is, the movements antiwar activism, antipoverty efforts, foreign policy interventions, intellectual and political debates, local character and national influence have been virtually ignored in the historiography of postwar America (Joseph 2006). The movement's antiwar activism, antipoverty efforts, foreign policy interventions, intellectual and political debates, local character and national influence have been virtually ignored in the historiography of postwar America (Joseph 2006).

Some adherents of the Black Power believe in the autonomy of the black, but with a variety of trends as a manifestation of nationalism and separatism. Often advocates of Black Power are determined to use violence to achieve its objectives, but this position is often accompanied with a determined effort to organize the community (Joseph 2006). Because of his violent behavior, often the adherents of Black Power came into direct conflict with the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, often acting ...