Black Power

After the Voting Rights Act and assignation of Martin Luther King Jr., a more militant tone took hold among many young Black activists. The new generations of activists were turning to more confrontation with segregation with protection against violence.

As the days go by more and more blacks were more dawn to the message of self-defense and black pride, and then non-violence. During this event, many whites that helped is the past civil rights event, felt unwelcome or were focusing on protesting the escalating war in Vietnam.

Black Power represented both a conclusions the decade's civil rights movement and a reaction against the racism that persisted despite the effort of black activist during the early 1960's.

Malcolm X argued that blacks should focus on improving their own communities instead of trying to achieve complete integration, and blacks had to react to violence with violence because it was there right.

The (SNCC) Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee created the political idea. They were mad, angry, and frustrated with what was happening to them, and they believed the non-violent approach would not end this discrimination, violence, and segregation. Many civil rights organization and whites condemned this idea for its racially separatist message. King wanted blacks to be proud of their race and appreciate their heritage, but he did not want to complicate matter by making it worse.

Black Power became even more powerful when the Black Panther Party advocated it. By the 1970's the rest of the movement died off.