Week 10: Essay #2 (final hip hop definition)

Black Power Movement

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Black Power Movement

The black power movement was experienced in the United States of American between the 1960 to 1980s. Black movements were orchestrated by several factors, of which the leading historical factors was the failure of the civil rights movements, which turned towards the military (Joseph, 2006). Other factors included ale leaders such as Malcolm X and other black revolutionists fighting against the infringement of black Americans’ rights to own properties, vote, and participate in different political, social, and economic activities. Other factors include the spread of black power ideals, which were also experienced in South America, the establishment of the black operate services, and the decline of many businesses and industries in the 1980s (Rojas, 2010). Malcolm X played a central role in the founding and subsequent spread of the Black Power Movement. As a leader of the movement, he formulated the philosophy that ignited many African-Americans and the few whites who supported African American emancipation to push for the attainment of their liberty.

Malcolm X mobilized and coordinated the Black Power Movement's activities, making the movement effective and successful in achieving its objectives. Huey P. Newton was one of the Black Panther Party founders, which was founded in the Oakland United States (Rojas, 2010). According to Huey P. Newton, patrolling meant watching the activities of the police in Oakland. The police were advancing brutality against the African Americans, and it is because of this, the blacks patrolled the streets to watch over the police's activities. Education was critical to the efforts to attain the objectives of the Black Panther Party. The party sought to bridge the practical and ideological deficit of the civil rights movements. People had to be educated on what it entailed to eradicate poverty (Joseph, 2006). Secondly, the party worked directly with the people in the community and therefore had to be educated on the party ideologies' significance.

References

Joseph, P. E. (Ed.). (2006). The black power movement: Rethinking the civil rights black power era. Taylor & Francis.

Rojas, F. (2010). From black power to black studies: How a radical social movement became an academic discipline. JHU Press.