Women in the Black Power Movement

Background of the Black Power Movement

"Black Power came to be defined as the cutting edge of black activism, a movement whose militancy contrasted with the more measured tone of the civil rights movement whose militancy contrasted with more measured tone of the civil rights movement and seemed to sign a break from past modes of black activism." - Peniel E. Joseph

"The black power movement, in its challenge of postwar racial liberalism, fundamentally transformed struggles for racial justice through an uncompromising quest for social, political, cultural, and economic transformation." - Peniel E. Joseph

Starting in the year 1966 the Black Power Movement was started. A strong call to action for African Americans around the world, alongside many other movements such as the Black Panther Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and more.

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