BLACK POWER
“We been saying 'Freedom' for six years. What we are going to start saying now is ‘Black Power!’ ”
-Stokely Carmichael
Black power was a movement in the 1960s that gave Blacks independence from white, in social, economic, and political aspects. It asserted that Blacks must develop their own history and heritage, by achieve civil rights independently. This movement led to both the unity and the division of Blacks and civil rights organizations.
