Black Power
the political and economic power of Black Americans in solidarity, especially such power used for achieving social equality.
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To top it off, Nugent has titled his latest concert series “Ted Nugent Black Power 2013.”
Harris writes, “A Republican, Brooke felt compelled to distance his victory from the civil rights and Black Power movements.”
What Has Obama Cost Blacks? A Columbia Professor Asks Hard Questions | Mansfield Frazier | July 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTPerhaps the only profound thing said by Stokely Carmichael during the Black Power era was that power is the ability to define.
Stokely Carmichael didn't expect the dawn of Black Power to be integrated, or jovial, or have a snappy rhythm.
The black-power movement of the 1970s was intertwined with a celebration of black male prowess.
Of course there were men, two of them, on the deck of that small, Black Power boat.
The Phantom Violin | Roy J. SnellShall she range herself in line, front to the Black Power, with her sister States?
Presidential Candidates: | D. W. BartlettHe no more wants to set up a universal Black Power than you or I do; he knows where he, and all his like, would come in under it.
The White Hand and the Black | Bertram Mitford
British Dictionary definitions for Black Power
a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
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Cultural definitions for Black Power
A movement that grew out of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Black Power calls for independent development of political and social institutions for black people and emphasizes pride in black culture. In varying degrees, Black Power advocates called for the exclusion of whites from black civil rights organizations. Stokely Carmichael, one of the leaders of the movement and the head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), stated: “I am not going to beg the white man for anything I deserve. I'm going to take it.”
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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