Summary History Paper 2: The Black Power Movement

BLACK POWER MOVEMENT
name: who: what: goals
the Black Bobby  Influenced by Malcolm  Become involved in
Panther Seale and X and communist the worldwide non-
Party Huey revolutionaries like white working class
Newton Mao Zedong struggle
 Radical methods,  Improve ghetto life
prepared to use  Police brutality:
violence “police the police”
 Carried guns on them  Self-help clinic in the
 Involved in city rioting ghettos
 Prepared to work with - successful
revolutionary white  Jobs and proper
groups housing
 Nationalistic  Class unity
 Emphasized class  Financial
unity compensation for
 Black Panther: slavery
defends himself  Create black juries
violently if he is for black criminals
attacked, but is not  Exempt blacks from
the aggressor military service
 Black berets and  10 point program
leather paramilitary  Free breakfast for
jackets children
 Raised fists and  Distributed clothes
carried law books to needy people
 Slogan: “burn, baby,  Lessons in first aid,
burn” an ambulance
 Attracted unemployed response program
youth, college and a drug
graduates and rehabilitation
students program
 FBI targeted them and  Organized transport
by 1970 most of their f0r poor families who
members were wanted to visit their
arrested or in prison relatives in prison
 Gave self-defense
classes and lessons
on politics
SNC Student Stokely  radical 
C Nonviolent Carmicha  later joined with the
Coordinating el Black Panthers and
committee formed the Black
Panther Party for Self-
Defense
 took up the notion of

, black power with a
clenched fist
OAA Organization Malcom X  established good  encouraged African
U of African- relations with non- Americans to vote,
American Muslim black to participate in the
Unity Americans political system and
 peaceful relations with to work with each
whites other and
sympathetic white
and Hispanic people
the Nation of Elijah  Strictly not a black  a nation within a
Islam Muhamm power group, but nation – separatism
ad more separatist  set up temples in the
- Believ  Focused on black ghettos – alternative
ed he pride, self-reliance, to white Christianity
was a separatism, militant  put money into
prophe opposition etc. black-owned
t of  whites were enemies restaurants, bakeries
Allah and grocery stores
COR Floyd  
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Black Panthers 1o point program (goals):
1. jobs
2. proper housing
3. exclusion from military service
4. eliminating police brutality
5. halting the exploitation of black people
by white people
6. the release of all black Americans from
prison
7. the right of black people to be tried by
juries composed of black people only
8. “freedom”
9. “land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace”
10. A referendum for black people to determine whether they wanted to
stay in America or form their own country
Organizations:
Common aims: black self-esteem, emphasizing separatism and
nationalism
- Encouraging blacks to improve their economic situation