Black Power
Stokely Carmichael was a Trinidadian-American civil rights activist in the 1960’s. Stokely was prime minister of the Black Party and he believed in resistance to white supremacy. Early in life Stokely adhered to the ideas of nonviolent protest Martin Luther King Jr. preached. However as time passed he felt nonviolence was working too slow and felt that resistance was the key to success. Carmichael helped to spread the idea of “Black Power” and defined it as, ''It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.''
Black Nationalism- Self Unity and respect for black society and the believe in separation from European society.
Black Panthers- The Black Panthers were a self defense organization who believed in radical resistance to gain equality.
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale- were the founders of the Black Panther Party and created the ten point program. These ten points were what they felt the black community deserved and should be given.
- We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.
- We want full employment for our people.
- We want an end to the robbery by the white men of our Black Community.
- We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
- We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.
- We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
- We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.
- We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.
- We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
- We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.