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The Civil Rights Movement and Black Power

1. Factors Influencing the Civil Rights Movement 2. Civil Rights Movement: Progressive Narrative 3. Civil Rights Movement: Tragic Redemptive Narrative. The Civil Rights Movement and Black Power. Progressive Narrative Tragic Redemptive Narrative DU BOIS GARVEY

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The Civil Rights Movement and Black Power

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  1. 1. Factors Influencing the Civil Rights Movement 2. Civil Rights Movement: Progressive Narrative 3. Civil Rights Movement: Tragic Redemptive Narrative The Civil Rights Movement and Black Power

  2. Progressive Narrative Tragic Redemptive Narrative DU BOISGARVEY MARTIN LUTHER KING JRMALCOM X BARACK OBAMABLACK PANTHERS SOUTHNORTH WALTER RODNEY Protest as a Historical Continuum

  3. 1. Increased number of blacks in north; 2. Impact of World War II; 3. Increased access to education; 4. Widespread access to television; 5. Growth of a black culture industry; 6. Anti-colonialist movements in Africa & Caribbean; and 7. Changes in US and global politics. Factors Influencing the Civil Rights Movement

  4. Christian Non-violent Multiracial and Integrationist Media centered Student organized NAACP as legal representative King’s Progressive Narrative

  5. Northern Separatist Africa as source of inspiration Slavery as ongoing Community based Confrontational X and a Tragic Redemptive Narrative

  6. “It is about taking care of business—the business of and for black people . . . If we succeed we will exercise control over our lives, politically, economically and psychically. We will also contribute to the development of a viable larger society; in terms of ultimate social benefit there is nothing unilateral about the movement to free black people” (Toure and Hamilton, Black Power 1967) Definition of Black Power

  7. The Watts Riot A large-scale race riot lasted for six days in Los Angeles, California in August 1965. 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured, and 3,952 arrested.

  8. Protection from police brutality Ten-point program of community empowerment Black nationalist Black Panther Party for Self-Defence

  9. US divided, along racial and socio-economic lines, into two societies: 40% of non-whites lived below the federal government's poverty line; Black men were twice as likely to be un-employed as whites and three times as likely to be in low-skill jobs; The commission viewed this poverty as the cause of crime and civil unrest. Kerner Commission (1968)

  10. Historical continuity with Garvey Challenged white cultural Referents and valorized blackness Drew language and metaphors from Rastafarianism Critical of educational system and middle class Unable to address issues of Indian ethnicity Walter Rodney and Black Power in a Caribbean Context

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