PPT-The Black Power Movement

The Black Power Movement is about making black skin powerful and beautiful Dr Anthony Brown A Race Riots 1 Watts riot A Black motorist was pulled over for drinking and driving which escalated into an argument and then a fight . JOHN S SMART. JOHN SMART CONSULTING ENGINEERS. HOUSTON TX . BLACK POWDER. IN PIPELINES. JOHN S. SMART. JOHN SMART CONSULTING ENGINEERS. HOUSTON, TX. What is Black Powder?. A mixture of fine particle corrosion products and other solids found in both liquid and gas pipelines. Framework. 1966-1973: . Radical wing of the black movement:. From movement involving civil disobedience, nonviolence, black/white unity. Aim (at least originally): incorporation into existing society on equal terms. the change. y. ou wish to see. in the world.”. -Gandhi. “Power. c. oncedes. n. othing . w. ithout a . d. emand.”. -Frederick Douglas. Social Movements. Things change. when people make things change.. From #. Blacklivesmatter. to . Kenrick. Lamar. Black is Beautiful Movement. 1960s movement revolved around changing the perception of white standards of beauty. Took root under the Black Power Movement . Litigation . (court cases – i.e. Brown v. Board of Ed.). Boycotts . (Montgomery Bus boycott after the arrest of Rosa Parks). Blacks walked and carpooled to work for over a year until they reversed the segregation laws on Public Buses.. The goal . . .. to obtain for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. Jim Crow Laws. In the South, governments had passed segregation (racial separation) laws (aka ‘Jim Crow laws’) which permitted discrimination against Blacks. . In . June 1966 . James Meredith. , the University of Mississippi’s first African American graduate, began a . 27-day. march from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, to encourage African Americans to register to vote. New Issues . Problems Facing Urban African Americans. Civil Rights leaders had made great progress in the decade following the Montgomery bus boycott, but equality eluded many African Americans. .. Racism was still common in American society.. The Need For Change. - The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country…But in the view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant ruling class of citizens…Our Constitution is color blind…In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law…. May this exhibition contribute to replenishing our national memory.May it serve to bring to the fore of our consciousness thecontribution of those who paid the ultimate price.It is the dictate of hist Best The Black Arts Movement Lucent Library of Black Fillmore District to set up a newsletter that would keep West Coast SNCC Cannon -- who edited THE MOVEMENT until he left to organize Stop the Draft Week in 1967 and face trial in the Oakland Seven con Beauty. and Empowerment. Martin Luther King . Nonviolence. and Integration . through. Soul Force. Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam. Seperatism. and . Equal. Rights by Any Means . Necessary. . The . A mechanism is the part of a machine which contains two or more pieces arranged so that the motion of one compels the motion of the others.. Generally used to:. Change the direction of movement. Change the type of movement.