After, the Black Panther Party became a militant black organization in America that was in the north and south. They educated African Americans about capitalism and how America was trying to liberate the people. They catered to the welfare of the African American people in less fortunate areas with free food and education. Unlike Dr. King, Black Panthers believed that if the police officers,or anyone racist used physical force amongst them, they were allowed to use it back.
Huey Newton, a black power social activist who helped establish The Black Panther Party, stated “Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” The Black Power Movement, which evolved around 1964, was an empowering movement that …show more content…
In “The Basis of Black Power” written by SNCC, stated that “Negroes in this country have never been allowed to organize themselves because of white interference...[Negroes] must cut [themselves] off from white people. [They] must form [their] own institutions, credit unions, co-ops, political parties, [and] write [their] own histories.” Money also increased and stayed within the African American community. Right around this time, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was a very active organization that involved many students around the United States. Black Power was cooperating with SNCC when Stokely Carmichael became the national chairman. Carmichael believe that SNCC was “An organization which claim[ed] to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.He thought it was best that African Americans only stay involved within their own territory because "no matter how much money you make in the black community, when you go into the white world you are still a nigger, you are still a nigger, you are still a nigger,”. SNCC’s policy was to be nonviolent and to support political and economic power of African Americans. They performed many restaurant, theatres and bus …show more content…
We have never been able to do that before. Everybody in this country jumps up and says, "I'm a friend of the civil rights movement. I'm a friend of the Negro." We haven't had the chance to say whether or not that man is stabbing us in the back or not. All those people who are calling us friends are nothing but treacherous enemies and we can take care of our enemies but God deliver us from our "friends." The only protection we are going to have is from each other. We have to build a strong base to let them know if they touch one black man driving his wife to the hospital in Los Angeles, or one black man walking down a highway in Mississippi or if they take one black man who has a rebellion and put him in jail and start talking treason, we are going to disrupt this whole
Huey Newton, a black power social activist who helped establish The Black Panther Party, stated “Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” The Black Power Movement, which evolved around 1964, was an empowering movement that …show more content…
In “The Basis of Black Power” written by SNCC, stated that “Negroes in this country have never been allowed to organize themselves because of white interference...[Negroes] must cut [themselves] off from white people. [They] must form [their] own institutions, credit unions, co-ops, political parties, [and] write [their] own histories.” Money also increased and stayed within the African American community. Right around this time, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was a very active organization that involved many students around the United States. Black Power was cooperating with SNCC when Stokely Carmichael became the national chairman. Carmichael believe that SNCC was “An organization which claim[ed] to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.He thought it was best that African Americans only stay involved within their own territory because "no matter how much money you make in the black community, when you go into the white world you are still a nigger, you are still a nigger, you are still a nigger,”. SNCC’s policy was to be nonviolent and to support political and economic power of African Americans. They performed many restaurant, theatres and bus …show more content…
We have never been able to do that before. Everybody in this country jumps up and says, "I'm a friend of the civil rights movement. I'm a friend of the Negro." We haven't had the chance to say whether or not that man is stabbing us in the back or not. All those people who are calling us friends are nothing but treacherous enemies and we can take care of our enemies but God deliver us from our "friends." The only protection we are going to have is from each other. We have to build a strong base to let them know if they touch one black man driving his wife to the hospital in Los Angeles, or one black man walking down a highway in Mississippi or if they take one black man who has a rebellion and put him in jail and start talking treason, we are going to disrupt this whole