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Black power movement

The black power movement consisted of a number of groups, who did not necessarily agree with each other and did not share a list of aims. Commonalities: desire for rise in black status, promoted self-defense, pride in culture. Did not focus on integration

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Advantage: interest

Greater interest in AA culture, history and music. Courses began to be run in universities.

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Advantage: ideology / propaganda

Powerful ideology: ‘black is beautiful’.

Greater propagandas for AA rights. At 1968 Olympics, two AA athletes gave the black power symbol on national TV.

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Advantage: Self-help groups

Local self-help groups and committees urging reform, such as the national black convention in 1972.

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Disadvantages: division

Further divided the Civil Rights movement.
Divided whites from AAs more. Lack of understanding. No wish to work together.

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Disadvantages: Critical of movement

MLK was critical of how the movement did not see the importance of white cooperation.

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Disadvantages: Police

A considerable amount of police repression used to put down black panthers.

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Overall advancements

There was increased public sympathy to black civil rights and the South was weakening in its racism

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Cold War impact on civil rights

Civil rights gradually seeped in alongside the Cold War which forced the US to look over its civil rights problems which hypocritically they were looking at elsewhere.

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Key aims of the Black Power Movement

Called for racial dignity, for economic and political self-sufficiency and freedom from white oppression

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