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After completing the assigned readings, media clip, and PowerPoint lectures for this Module, draft your 500-word Discussion Board essay in response to the below query. Moreover, when drafting your response, remember that you are required to use and reference specific details from the Module's assigned and supplementary readings, media clips, and/or PowerPoint lectures to support the points you make in your essay. Only use and cite non-assigned sources if the information entailed in them augments or contradicts the information in the assigned and supplementary sources in Blackboard and your textbook. If you use and cite outside sources that do not present significant different information/perspectives than the assigned and supplementary sources for the class, you will lose points. Moreover, you will need to draft a separate brief reply to the essay of at least one of your classmates.
Module 7 Discussion Board Query: How similar and different are the issues faced by and tactics used by proponents of the Black Power Movement of the late-1960s from those faced by and used by proponents of the modern-day #BlackLivesMatter movement? And, what do the similarities and differences in public responses to those movements during their respective eras reveal about racial progress in America?
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· Eyes On The Prize - (Part 7) The Time Has Come 1964–1966
Eyes On The Prize - (Part 7) The Time Has Come 1964–1966
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(Part 7) The Time Has Come 1964–1966 chronicles a lead member of the Nation of Islam - Malcolm X. The film also chronicles the political organizing work of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) in Alabama and the shooting of James Meredith during the March Against Fear.
SOURCE: "Eyes On The Prize - (Part 7) The Time Has Come 1964–1966," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W66UigXVoO8 (Accessed on January 15, 2017).
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Fred Hampton BPP Eyes on the Prize, 12, "A Nation of Law?, 1967-1968"
Fred Hampton BPP Eyes on the Prize 12 A Nation of Law?, 1967 1968 2
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By the late 1960s, the anger in poorer urban areas over charges of police brutality was smoldering. In Chicago, Fred Hampton formed a Black Panther Party chapter. As the chapter grew, so did police surveillance. In a pre-dawn assault by the police, Panthers Hampton and Mark Clark were killed. The deaths came at a time when movement activists were increasingly becoming targets of police harassment at both the local and federal levels through COUNTELPRO, the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program. During this same period, inmates at New York's Attica prison took over the prison in an effort to publicize intolerable conditions. During the police assault which ended the takeover, several inmates and guards were killed. For some, Attica came to symbolize the brutality of a hardened political regime.
SOURCE: "Fred Hampton BPP Eyes on the Prize 12 A Nation of Law?, 1967 1968 2," YouTube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeQUrUSFszo (Accessed January 3, 2016).
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"The Ballot or the Bullet" by Malcolm X (April 3, 1964)
This link will enable you to access a transcript and hear some audio of a speech in which Malcolm X explains the choice that he believed the power structure of America had in solving the problem of racial inequality in America. He believed that America could peacefully and immediately cease denying black Americans their complete rights as citizens or they could try to continue denying those rights to blacks. He argued that if white America chose the latter option, they would have to deal with the violent uprisings that would (and should) come from the disenfranchised black masses. Thus, this speech is known as "The Ballot or the Bullet." Click the link to access and read the speech.
If you have trouble accessing the speech from the above link, copy-and-paste the following web address into your browser: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/065.html
Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet Speech," April 1964, http://xroads.virginia.edu/~public/civilrights/a0146.html (January 8, 2014).
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The Black Panther Party's "10-Point Platform"
1. We Want Freedom. We Want Power To Determine The Destiny Of Our Black Community.
We believe that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.
2. We Want Full Employment For Our People.
We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the White American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.
3. We Want An End To The Robbery By The Capitalists Of Our Black Community.
We believe that this racist government has robbed us, and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million Black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.
4. We Want Decent Housing Fit For The Shelter Of Human Beings.
We believe that if the White Landlords will not give decent housing to our Black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.
5. 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 believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.
6. We Want All Black Men To Be Exempt From Military Service.
We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like Black people, are being victimized by the White racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.
7. We Want An Immediate End To Police Brutality And Murder Of Black People.
We believe we can end police brutality in our Black community by organizing Black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our Black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all Black people should arm themselves for self- defense.
8. We Want Freedom For All Black Men Held In Federal, State, County And City Prisons And Jails.
We believe that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.
9. 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 believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that Black people will receive fair trials. The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the Black community from which the Black defendant came. We have been, and are being, tried by all-White juries that have no understanding of the "average reasoning man" of the Black community.
10. We Want Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice And Peace.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
By Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, October 15, 1966
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Eyes On The Prize (Part 7): The Time Has Come 1964-1966 Americas Civil Rights Movement
Eyes On The Prize (Part 7): The Time Has Come 1964-1966 Americas Civil Rights Movement
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Episode 7 of the Eyes on the Prize series is titled "The Time Has Come, 1964–1966." The episode chronicles the ideological evolution of Malcolm X's Black Nationalism. Moreover, it chronicles the influence that Malcolm X had on the changing tone and focus of the struggle for civil rights in the South. In highlighting political organizing work of the young activists within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) in Alabama, the episode examines when and how the Civil Right Movements gave rise to the Black Power Movement.
As you watch the episode, consider the difference between Martin Luther King's approach to the movement and Stokely Carmichael's approach. Which approach makes more sense to you and why?
SOURCE: "Eyes On The Prize - (Part 7) The Time Has Come 1964–1966," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMMU3QoR90 (Accessed on April 19, 2018).
