Civil Rights Movement: The Black Panthers

Symbols can be universal and when you do them everyone knows what you stand for and believe in or are protesting. Unfortunately, They were no longer allowed to compete, they knew they were taking a risk, but in the end it made a statement. This small action made by these courageous athletes left a lasting impact on society, and proved that symbolism is a way of representing a strong force. In order to become a strong, well known movement the group needed a slogan, with the force came a black power symbol that became a universal sign for black power. In other words, everything I've talked about throughout this essay has been about what the Black Power movement is and what it stands for, symbolism can express most of what I've said with just one clenched, gloved fist held up powerfully in the

Black Power Huey Newton, cofounder of the Black Panthers, once said, “Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” Due to the mistreatment of African Americans a speech was given and a phrase was coined that raised awareness of the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement. Stokely Carmichael was one of many who were leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, Stokely Carmichael was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Black abolitionism was a movement that targets an end to slavery. The key similarities between civil right movement and Black abolitionism were the struggle to free Black people and give equal status like Whites. The difference between Black abolitionism and Civil Right were civil Rights was movement that was based on nonviolent approached led by Dr Martin Luther king, Jr. Civil Right movement was a spirit of black unity.

His aim was for blacks to be completely separated from the other races so that they could develop their own homeland. His ideas proved to be controversial. Although his leadership was helpful in terms of spreading black nationalism, his ideas of “complete segregation’ wasn’t prefered by many. Why did civil rights

In Detroit of 1964, “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech was given by Malcolm X. He wanted to create a political consciousness; raising to stop people from being unconscious, to take responsibility, to show a performance of black manhood, morally inflected with a religious understanding of the black-Muslim ideals. Anti-colonial struggles in Africa, North Vietnam, and the United States was used to display more violence occurring around the world. Many felt that the Uncle Tom approach was too compromising. Gandhi’s success in India to where he takes on a protest that Martin Luther King wanted to pursue, but the wars around the world mattered because of the black nationalism movement in the U.S. Guerilla warfare, which Malcolm eludes to in his speech.

One of the main groups of the Black Power Movement was the Black Panther Party. Founded by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and others in Oakland, California, in 1966 . This group followed the ideology of Malcolm X using a "by-any-means necessary" approach to stopping racial inequality against blacks. Unlike the civil rights activists who preach non-violence, the Black Panthers authorized the use of violence as a viable form of self-defense. The Black Panthers gained notoriety for patrolling the streets in black berets, black leather jackets, and armed with weapons.

The police brutality of African Americans has shaped American history from the civil movements of the 20th century to the power movements of today’s society. The injustices of blacks reached a peak in the 1900s as a fight for equality and civil rights fueled deeper. Blacks were free from slavery but still weren’t seen as equals in American culture. The law is intended to protect it citizens but in that time blacks had no favor with the law and police. The same issues of inequality before the law and social acceptance have ignited a the modern day push for rights and fair treatment.

DuBois believed that African Americans could never achieve equality by copying white American ideals, and that equality could only be achieved by teaching racial pride and African cultural heritage. On the other side of the coin, Marcus Garvey and his Pan African Movement was preaching a return back to Africa message and encouraging black economic independence. The political awareness among African Americans was increasing significantly, it was realized that it was necessary to become active in society in order to achieve racial equality. “The emergence of the New Negro symbolized black liberation and the final shaking off of the residuals of slavery in mind, spirit and

Mass incarceration is the way that the United States has locked up millions of people over the last forty years using unnecessary and disproportionate policies. Contrary to popular belief, this is racially fueled as most of these policies saw to it that blacks and latinos be locked up for longer than their white peers and for smaller crimes. These racist roots within the system can be traced back to when the first slave ship arrived in the US. But our first major prison boom was seen after the American Civil war. I know that the Civil War was far more than forty years ago.

Clearly from the image described, those two groups didn’t see blacks as their equals and despised them. Their purpose in creating this image was to install fear in blacks to keep them from voting and believing that they are equal to those in the ex-confederacy. The kkk had been using terror tactics all throughout the Reconstruction era because they didn’t want blacks to vote or participate in their politics the kkk wanted to keep white supremacy. For a while the South had enacted black codes which replaced the slave codes. The black codes restricted the freedom of African Americans, but eventually the federal government ruled black codes unconstitutional.

leadership. The Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Act formed a legal basis to end the segregation and discrimination that has been happening in the United States. Malcolm X influenced disparate wings of the black movement. King influenced the non-violence act to the younger African-American generation to show them that violence just causes more of a problem. The radical faction of the "Black Power" movement accepted his positions on African identification, neocolonialism, black control of the political economy of black communities, and Afro-American self-defense.

It gives me the people on the side of the black panther party and their reasons for. Also gives me the people against on the other side and their point of view. It talks about how the head of the federal bureau of investigation J. Edgar Hoover was against the black panther’s party. Even said that they were “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country’’. The book also talked about the programs the black panther party started and all the groups they supported.

The Southern people are not so welcoming towards African Americans, they wish that they would either return to being slaves or go back to Africa or where they were taken from. These laws affected both the north and the south. The North had a big hand in helping the South

Compared to the Black Lives Matter movement,

They were also on the bottom of the industrial chain. The continuance of these problems had a disastrous effect on African Americans and their families. The Black Panthers Party eventually began to stand up for themselves and fight back. They strongly believed in self-defense.