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Goals:

Shift in language to reach liberation; freedom--> power

Identifying & increasing (black) public awareness of the axes of oppression that are heaped on Black people by the US

Addressing/combating those axes

Allocating power to Black people

Economic

Principles/values:

Violence as a viable tool for resistance

Relationship to Faith/faith-based communities

Attention to gender

Multi-generational movement-building

Actions

Critically conscious use of media for message amplification

Education as an action!

Opening up access to university space as organizing space, university resources for Black power

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1. What similarities do you notice between the speeches given by Johnson and Obama?
2. What does their language tell you about how social movements are perceived by those in power?
3. How does our understanding of social movements and their relationship to government inform our work?

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President Obama Speaks Out on George Floyd Protests, Black Lives Matter | NowThis

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For your group's assigned topic, spend some time going through the overview and archival materials (no need to get through everything individually, feel free to focus on a few that interest you). After your exploration, discuss the following:

1. What are some of the principles, values, and goals of this movement?
2. What does action look like for this movement? In what (specific) ways do they work towards their goal?
3. How do visual sources (photographs, artwork, etc.) contribute to this movement's image?

Be prepared to share a brief summary of your movement with the larger group!

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Founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian advocacy group organized to address issues related to sovereignty, leadership, and treaties. Particularly in its early years, AIM also protested racism and civil rights violations against Native Americans. During the 1950s, increasing numbers of American Indians had been forced to move away from reservations and tribal culture because of federal Indian termination policies intended to assimilate them into mainstream American culture. Founders of AIM included Mary Jane Wilson, Dennis Banks, Vernon Bellecourt, Clyde Bellecourt, and George Mitchell, while other activists like Russell Means worked with the organization prominently in the 1970s.

AIM staged a number of protest actions on historically significant sites of injustice and violence perpetrated by the federal government against Native Americans. These protests included the occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1970, protests at the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1972, the occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973, and the Longest Walk spiritual march from Alcatraz to Washington, DC to support tribal sovereignty and bring attention to anti-Indian legislation in 1978. AIM continues its work to the present day, speaking out against injustices and working to improve conditions for Native Americans. This primary source set uses documents, photographs, videos, and news stories to tell the story of the first decade of the American Indian Movement.

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Founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian advocacy group organized to address issues related to sovereignty, leadership, and treaties. Particularly in its early years, AIM also protested racism and civil rights violations against Native Americans.

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Stonewall and Its Impact on the Gay Liberation Movement | DPLA

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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

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The Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a political and social movement whose advocates believed in racial pride, self-sufficiency, and equality for all people of Black and African descent. Credited with first articulating "Black Power" in 1966, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader Stokely Carmichael represented a generation of black activists who participated in both Civil Rights and the Black Power movements. By the mid 1960s, many of them no longer saw nonviolent protests as a viable means of combatting racism. New organizations, such as the Black Panther Party, the Black Women's United Front, and the Nation of Islam, developed new cultural, political, and economic programs and grew memberships that reflected this shift. Desegregation was insufficient-only through the deconstruction of white power structures could a space be made for a black political voice to give rise to collective black power. Because of these beliefs, the movement is often represented as violent, anti-white, and anti-law enforcement. This primary source set addresses these representations through artifacts from the era, such as sermons, photographs, drawings, FBI investigations, and political manifestos.

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The Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a political and social movement whose advocates believed in racial pride, self-sufficiency, and equality for all people of Black and African descent. Credited with first articulating "Black Power" in 1966, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader Stokely Carmichael represented a generation of black activists who participated in both Civil Rights and the Black Power movements.

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Address to the Nation Regarding Civil Disorder, 7/27/67. MP594.