Black PowerBy: Andrew Ashton

Black Power’s Antecedents• Malcolm X• Learned Islam in prison• Conversion of Cassius Clay• Loudest Voice of Civil Rights Movement• Non-believer in non violent resistance• “Message to the Grassroots”• OAAU• Assassination

• Bandung 1955• Nonviolent self-defense groups in the south

Proclaiming Black Power• James Meredith

• Stokely Carmichael

• Black Panthers

• Muhammad Ali

A Dissident Youth Culture• Population of African

Americans in white colleges begins to grow

• Campus Activism

• The growth of the Afro

Black Artistic Power• Black Arts Movement• Black is beautiful

• Blaxploitation Movies

Black Feminism

• The Moynihan Report• The Voice of the Black Women• In Search of our Mother’s Gardens:

Womanist Prose• NCNW• WICS

Black Feminism Cont.• NBFO

• TWAA

Social and Political Realities• Unemployment Rate

• Violence and Riots

• Martin Luther King assassination

The 1968 Olympics

Importance and Legacy• Using education to it’s fullest• Black Women Leaders in Feminism • Finally doing something about it• Showed the artistic side of African

Americans • Showed the African American community is

strong, and will always stick to their beliefs

References• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhv1g0sIpY• http://

www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/06/Court-Rules-DOJ-Politicized-Black-Panther-Case-Awards-JW-Court-Fees

• http://www.businessinsider.com/nba-draft-lucas-nogueira-afro-pictures-2013-6

• http://www.drmasonsclasses.com/blackwomenwriters/archives/1594

• http://www.flickriver.com/photos/japaneseforms/281359705/• http://care2playsports.com/?p=256• http://saleemimd.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/muhammed-ali-wit

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• http://chasepublic.com/?attachment_id=888• http://globalsolutions.org/blog/2012/07/olympics-series-week-3-s

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