Knowra Black Power Black Power Black Power is a political movement advocating Black self-determination, community control, and racial pride. It grew in the United States during the 1960s and included diverse organizations and strategies.
Civil Rights Movement : A broad movement that challenged racial segregation and discrimination, especially in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. Black Power arose within this broader struggle and challenged some of its strategies and goals.
Black self-determination : The principle that Black people should determine their political, economic, and cultural futures. It names the movement’s central demand for authority over decisions affecting Black communities.
Black Panther Party : A revolutionary Black political organization founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. It became the movement’s best-known organization through its ten-point program and neighborhood campaigns.
Free Breakfast for Children Program : A Black Panther Party initiative that provided free breakfasts to children in underserved communities. The program turned community control into direct support for families and challenged public neglect.
COINTELPRO : An FBI counterintelligence program that surveilled and disrupted domestic political organizations from 1956 to 1971. The program targeted Black liberation organizations, including the Black Panther Party.
Stokely Carmichael : A Trinidadian-American activist who popularized the slogan “Black Power” during the 1960s. His 1966 call for Black Power made the phrase a national rallying cry.
Community control : Local authority over institutions and decisions that shape a community’s daily life. Black Power organizers applied it to schools, policing, housing, and neighborhood services.
Huey P. Newton : A co-founder of the Black Panther Party who developed its political program with Bobby Seale. Newton helped define the party’s claims for self-determination and community control.
Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program : A 1966 statement of demands addressing employment, housing, education, policing, and self-determination. It made the party’s interpretation of Black Power concrete through a political platform.
Black Power salute : A raised-fist gesture associated with Black Power and the 1968 Olympic medal ceremony of Tommie Smith and John Carlos. The salute made the movement’s politics visible to a global audience.
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