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The American Century c.1890-1990

Black Power, the riots and the aftermath

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Black Power, black Panthers and watts riot.

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What was Black Power?

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Who was Malcolm X, and what did he argue?

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Who coined the slogan Black Power, and when?

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  1. 1

    What was Black Power?

    Model answer

    A movement asserting Black pride, self-reliance and self-defence, and rejecting integration as the sole goal of the struggle.

  2. 2

    Who was Malcolm X, and what did he argue?

    Model answer

    A minister of the Nation of Islam who rejected non-violence and integration, arguing for Black self-determination and self-defence.

  3. 3

    How did Malcolm X's position change before his death?

    Model answer

    After leaving the Nation of Islam and travelling to Mecca in 1964 he moved towards a broader anti-racist position; he was assassinated in 1965.

  4. 4

    Who coined the slogan Black Power, and when?

    Model answer

    Stokely Carmichael of SNCC, during the Meredith march in Mississippi in 1966.

  5. 5

    What were the Black Panthers?

    Model answer

    A party founded in Oakland in 1966 that combined armed self-defence against police violence with community programmes such as free breakfasts for children.

  6. 6

    Why did Black Power appeal in the northern cities?

    Model answer

    Legal desegregation had changed little there, where the problems were housing, policing, unemployment and de facto segregation rather than Jim Crow law.

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