Black Powerthe Acceptance of the Afro

&

“This [white man’s] religion

taught the Negro that black was a

curse. It taught him to

hate everything

black, including himself.”

If your skin was not this color or lighter….

“We’ve been brainwashed. Everything good is supposed to be white…Angel food is the white cake, but the devils food cake is chocolate.”

-Muhammad Ali

Goals

A representation of Universal peace and Harmony.

1)Complete and full freedom.2)Equal justice.3)Equality of opportunity.4)Establishment of new nation

for blacks.5)Freedom for all black and

believers of Islam in prison.6)End to police brutality and

mob attacks.7)Equal employment

opportunities.8)All blacks and believers of

Islam are exempt from all taxation as long as they face attacks on their self.

9)Equal—but separate schools; only black Muslim students and teachers.

10) Prohibition of intermarriage.

A major factor for the passage of Voting Rights Bill of 1965

Stokely Carmichael

popularized the term Black

Power

Street image contributed to black nationalism

1968—Olympics. Athletes Tommie Smith (gold) and

John Carlos (bronze) raising their fists into the

air.

Black Pride

Naomi Sims—the first black supermodel

Soul FoodSoul Food

Blacks Arts Movement

Redd Fox—”We were poor. If I wasn’t a boy, I wouldn’t have anything to play with.”

We are beautiful peopleWith African imaginationsfull of masks and dances and swelling chantswith African eyes, and noses, and armstho we sprawl in gray chains in a placefull of winters, when what we want is sun. 

—Amiri Baraka, Ka’Ba