HIST 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Port Huron Statement, Stokely Carmichael
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Malcolm x: the intellectual father of the black power . Its roots lay in the past injustice and present prejudice. Slogan that came to national attention in 1966 when sncc leader stokely. Black power immediately became a rallying cry for those bitter over the federal. Especially from whites who tried to dictate the movement"s goals. Suggested everything from election of more blacks officials to the belief that black americans were a colonized people whose freedom could be won only through a revolutionary struggle for self- determination. New left, rejection of the intellectual and political categories that had shaped radicalism and liberalism for most of the twentieth century. Call for a democracy of citizen participation harked back to the american. Critiqued the contrast between american values and american reality, to the. Opposition to the war became the organizing theme that united people with doubts abolitionists. revolution and discontents. The rise of the students for a democratic society.
