Civil Rights and Black Power (1941-1970)



Civil Rights and Black Power (1941-1970)

Introduction

Margaret Walker said, “Handicapped as we have been by a racist system of dehumanizing slavery and segregation, our American history of nearly five hundred years reveals that our cultural and spiritual gifts brought from our African past are still intact”

A Racial Group is a collection of persons who have obvious and apparent distinctive physical as well as biological characteristics. The attendance of African Americans, also recognized as Blacks, has been dated back until the 1400's yet, until today they are discriminated, segregated and isolated in the American society (Feagin, ...