Black Power
A closer look at the myriad ways the Black Power Movement extended the critique of capitalism and colonialism offered by the Civil Rights Movement.
Introduction
If the nonviolence of the Southern Freedom/Civil Rights Movement frightened mainstream people in the U.S., the Black Power movement confronted institutional racism with a youthful boldness and fearlessness unseen since enslaved Africans took up arms in the Civil War. In this section, important “founding documents” of the Black Power movement are examined. In addition, the section explores the impact of Black Power on other oppressed peoples in the United States.
Lessons
Readings
Films, Books, and Other Resources
Lessons and Resources
Topics and Authors
- Reading
- Lesson
- Mississippi
- Desegregation
- Education
- SNCC
- Alabama
- Deborah Menkart
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Voting Rights
- Black Power
- Labor
- Ella Baker
- Teaching Reflection
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- SCLC
- Emilye Crosby
- Poetry
- Julian Bond
- Selma
- Jenice L. View
- MFDP
- Black Panther Party
- Primary Document
- Transportation
- Teaching Idea
- Rosa Parks
- Land
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Malcolm X
- Bob Moses
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Stokely Carmichael
- Julian Hipkins III
- Vietnam War
- John Lewis
- Voting Rights Act
- Timeline
- Sit-Ins
- March on Washington
- Judy Richardson
- Amzie Moore
- Alana D. Murray
- Maggie Nolan Donovan
- Colia Liddell Lafayette Clark
- Nonviolence
- Film
- Medgar Evers
- Emmett Till
- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
- John Hulett
- Self-Defense
- Quiz
- Bill Bigelow
- Freedom Summer
- NAACP
- Tennessee
- Allison Acosta
- Art
- Claudette Colvin
- Prisons
- SNCC Digital Gateway
- Black Lives Matter
- Amelia Boynton
- Sheyann Webb
- Herbert Lee
- Adam Sanchez
- KKK
- Clyde Kennard
- FBI
- Patty Bode
- Charles Payne
- Linda Christensen
- Stephanie Schmidt
- CORE
- Highlander
- Introduction
- E.W. Steptoe
- Georgia
- Nicolás Guillén
- James Loewen
- Arkansas
- Louis Allen
- Redlining
- Annie Devine
- New York
- SCOTUS
- North Carolina
- Kentucky
- Elementary
- Eyes on the Prize
- Allyson Criner Brown
- A. Philip Randolph
- Chris Seeger
- Coretta Scott King
- James Meredith
- Hasan Jeffries
- Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- Bayard Rustin
- Police