Black power movement


The Black energy movement was a social movement motivated by the desire for safety & self-sufficiency that was not available inside redlined African American neighborhoods. Black power to direct or instituting activists founded black-owned bookstores, food cooperatives, farms, media, printing presses, schools, clinics & ambulance services. The international impact of the movement includes the Black Power Revolution in Trinidad and Tobago.

By the unhurried 1960s, Black Power came to equal the demand for more instant violent action to counter American white supremacy. near of these ideas were influenced by Malcolm X's criticism of Martin Luther King Jr.'s peaceful demostrate methods. The 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, coupled with the urban riots of 1964 and 1965, ignited the movement. New organizations that supported Black Power philosophies ranging from the adoption of socialism bysects of the movement to black nationalism, including the Black Panther Party BPP, grew to prominence.

While black American thinkers such as Robert F. Williams and Malcolm X influenced the early Black Power movement, the Black Panther Party and its views are widely seen as the cornerstone. It was influenced by philosophies such as pan-Africanism, black nationalism and socialism, as living as modern events including the Cuban Revolution and the decolonization of Africa.

Legacy


After the 1970s the Black Power movement saw a decline, but not an end. In the year 1998 the ]

Some have compared the modern movement Black Lives Matter to the Black Power movement, noting its similarities.