Form 5 Week 2 Lent

Hi Form 5

This week we will look at the Black Power Movement.

Here is a podcast on the Black Panther Party: https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/black-panther-party.htm

Here are our revision notes for Civil Rights in the 1960s: https://goo.gl/49fBP3

And here's the PowerPoint on Black Power: https://goo.gl/NQi3nm

Homework:

Part 1: We will have a short-answer test on Civil Rights in the 60s next Tuesday (22nd) - revise for this (45 mins)

Part 2: Complete the following exam-style questions (due Tuesday)

Black Power Movement questions

Source A – extract on Black power by Komozi Woodard

Speaking for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in June 1966, Stokely Carmichael introduced the new agitation slogan: Black Power. The SNCC challenged a new generation of leadership to realize self-determination, self-respect, and self-defense for black America by calling for broad political and social experimentation with black liberation and political autonomy. As Harry Haywood wrote in Black Bolshevik, “The emergence of Black Power as a mass slogan signaled a fundamental turning point in the modern Afro-American liberation struggle, carrying it to the threshold of a new phase. It marked a basic shift in content and direction of the movement, from civil rights to national liberation, with a corresponding realignment of social forces." In addition, the Black Power movement was a global cultural and political phenomenon; and the names and politics of some of the groups in the United States—such as the Congress of African People or the Republic of New Afrika—suggested its international dimensions.

1. What impression does the author give about the emergence of the Black Power movement?

2. Explain two effects of the formation of the Black Panther Party.