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Why was the Black Power Movement founded?

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Why was the Black Power Movement founded?

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The Civil Rights Movement already changed a lot in America. It ended the segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, color, or national origin.
But people still did not feel safe. The Black Power Movement was motivated by a desire for safety and self-sufficiency that was not available in African American neighborhoods.

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Goals:

• campaigned for equal opportunities for black people in economic, political and cultural terms and in 1954 achieved the abolition of racial segregation in schools.

• campaigned for voting for all.

• Further goals after the desegregation was desegregated by the Supreme Court in 1954 (Brown v. Board of Education), the NAACP tried to reverse the racial segregation in all southern states and therefore also supported the Montogomery bus boycott in 1956

•The NAACPs mission has been to achieve a fully integrate society with equal rights for all. It’s national leadership has always been interracial even through the membership has been mostly African American. To achieve this mission the NAACP has not only focused on using the legal system to challenge discrimination but also unconvincing  all people of the need for racial equality through speeches, organising and legal advocacy.

•Eliminate racial discrimination and segregation from all aspects of public life in America.

• Ensuring laws prohibiting discrimination and segregation.

•Ensuring equal employment opportunities based on individual merit regardless of race, religion or national origin.

•End mob violence and police brutality.

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In 1909 racial and justices were common. The segregation was legal in many parts of the United States. Employment discrimination was common and voting rights were often denied. People of color across the country, had to live with the fear of racial violence and lynching. And so the NAACP was formed . Build on the ideals of another group: the Niagara Movement.

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On February 12th 1909 what is now the nations oldest and largest grassroots civil rights organisations was formed in New York. The NAACP which stands for the National Association for the advancement of coloured people has been a driving force and fighting race-based discrimination in the United States since its founding.

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Malcolm X was an African American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. Malcom X joined the Nation of Islam, which believed that blacks were superior to whites. They also believed in black self-reliance and that African Americans should return to where they originated from, Africa, as they believed that they would never be abundantly accepted in American society. Malcolm X became one of their best outspoken speakers.

Malcolm X believed that blacks had the right to defend themselves violently in the face of a violent attack if necessary to achieve their freedom and equality. He didn’t believe in Martin Luther King’s ideology of passive resistance, their lack of power was the foundation of Malcolm X’s duty to encourage that protests be more assertive.

Although he was a firm believer of the promotion of black interests, black self-esteem, black self-pride and black self-defence against racial oppression his views began to change after his pilgrimage to mecca. He discovered that Muslims preach equality of the races. After returning to America he remained convinced that racism ruined the spirit of America and that only black people could free themselves.

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In 1910 the NAACP began publishing a magazine called The Crisis. For its first 24 years it was edited by Du Bois. Many of the NAACP’s actions have focused on national issues for example, the group helped the U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson to denounce lynching in 1918. Other areas of activism have involved political action to secure enactment of civil rights laws, programs of education and public information to win popular support, and direct action to achieve specific goals. In 1939 the NAACP established as an independent legal arm for the civil rights movement the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, which litigated to the Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the case that resulted in the high court’s landmark 1954 school-desegregation decision. The organization had also won a significant victory in 1946, with Morgan v. Virginia, which successfully barred segregation in interstate travel, setting the stage for the Freedom Rides of 1961.

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Their relation to the Civil Rights Movement 

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Their relation to the Civil Rights Movement 

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At its core, the Black power movement was a movement for Black liberation. What made the Black power movement different from the civil rights movement of the early 1960s, and frightening to white people, was that it embraced forms of self-defense. In fact, the full name of the Black Panther Party was “the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.” Violence seemed like the last option to get their points across and to save them from this ever lasting nightmare or injustice.

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The Black Power Movement set down a fundamental platform for the advancement of African Americans. Under the Civil Rights Movement, Civil Rights Acts were passed, race discrimination became illegal and this gave African Americans a new kind of self-esteem and self-confidence in who they were as Americans.

Although the Black Power Movement “ended” the spirit today still does exist, not only in America but in all parts of the world. If we look at America today, there are many successful African Americans in the country. The dream of many African Americans was achieved in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected as America’s first black president. This could not be made possible if black power did not exist.

It is suggested that the failures of the Civil Rights Movement subsequently lead to the rise of Black Power. The methods used during the Civil Rights Movement like passive resistance and civil disobedience felt inadequate to the black people therefore it appeared that was a need for alternative methods to achieve equality.

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The Black Power movement made positive, lasting contributions to the African American lifestyle. Black people became more accepting and prideful of their American heritage. The ghettos decreased as well as crime and poverty.

Black voters supported their black candidates even more. Black students were now given the opportunity to study at university without any racial oppression or discrimination. Although we like to believe that racial discrimination no longer existed in America, it did and it still does.

The Black Power Movement also created a strong black culture for African Americans, this was something that they could relate to for example soulful music, eccentric fashion and heartfelt literature.

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Employed methods of the Black Power Movement

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Employed methods of the Black Power Movement

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Many of the members of the party carried firearms with them to protect the black people from the police but also made them look very intimidating displaying their clear contrary to the Civil Rights Movement. Guns showed strength and power and matched with the energy the white people and police had.

Majority of the black people were illiterate and this created a problem for the party as flyers or leaflets could not be made therefore there was no use for them if others couldn’t read them.

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•She became famous as the “woman who wouldn't stand up”: When Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat on a bus for a white man in 1955, she became a figurehead of the civil rights movement.  For her decades of service, she was honored with the highest civilian honors in the United States.

•Rosa Parks' resistance in December 1955 transformed the civil rights struggle into a mass movement that transformed America.

•After that, more African American women did it that year

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People interpreted the Black Power Movement in many different ways and hat many beliefs, but at the end they had the same goal: Black Nationalism. Black power promoted black interests, self-sufficient black economy, Black self-pride and self-esteem.

The Black power believed in black control of their communities, they did not believed in nonviolent protests because they believed that direct action would be more effective.

They did not wanted to waste their time on proving to the white people what they were equal but rather that, that time to be spent on educating the black community of black power, building institutions and providing protection to fellow black citizens.

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What did the Black Power Movement stand for?

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What did the Black Power Movement stand for?

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Dr. King believed that “Black Power“ meant “different things to different people“ and he was right.
After Charmichael used the slogan, many black people groups began to forming across the country with different ideas of what the slogan meant. Charmichael once said, “When you talk about Black power, you talk about bringing this country to its knees any time it messes with the Black man…Any white man in this country knows about power. He knows what white power is, and he ought to know what Black power is.“

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Malcolm X was killed before the Black Power Movement started. But his life and his teachings laid the groundwork for the movement and served as one of the movement’s greatest inspirations.
A key leader in the movement was Stokely Carmichael, who was also the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Black Panther Party (BPP) and All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).

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The NAACP was established in February 1909 in New York City by an interracial group of activists, partially in response to the 1908 Springfield race riot in Illinois in that event, two Black men were held in a Springfield jail for alleged crimes against white people were surreptitiously transferred to a jail in another city, spurring a white mob to burn down 40 homes in Springfield’s Black residential district, ransack local businesses and murder two African Americans.

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NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of the rights of all people.

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Rosa Parks (1913–2005), a local chapter secretary of the NAACP, refuses to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.  Their actions set the stage for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.  The boycott becomes a stepping stone for organizations like the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Urban League to build a national civil rights movement.

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They had a strategy for their success. They wanted to fight discriminatory laws in court.

•In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that segregating schools was unconstitutional.

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The NAACP is the oldest and most known civil rights organization in the United States. With more than 500,000 members, the NAACP works at the local and national levels to ensure political, educational, social and economic equality for all and to promote racial hatred and to eliminate racial discrimination.

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Between the 1960s and 1970s the Black Power Movement began as a revolutionary movement. It emphasized the creation of political and cultural institutions, racial pride and economic empowerment

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•Today the NAACP remains actively committed to fighting discrimination. Its scope has widened to include fighting inequality in economics health care education voter  empowerment and the criminal justice system. To this day the NAACP continues to serve as an important legal advocate for all civil rights issues.

•The NAACP is continued today by other leaders like Derrick Johnson.

•To celebrate black excellence and the achievements of black celebrities

•They hold award shows to celebrate black excellence

•The NAACP holds awards shows in which they give awards to black celebrities like Rihanna or Beyoncé