The Civil Rights Movement had achieved several major goals in the early 1960’s under leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, and Phillip Randolph, just to name a few. Their methods of non-violent protest demonstrations and litigation led to desegregation in schools and in public transportation. Despite these successes, African Americans soon realized that these nonviolent boycotts and litigation processes did little to alter their daily lives and racial violence still ensued. Between 1964- 1968, black urban rebellions and race riots were happening in different Metropolitan cities such as Watts and Compton. With this volatile background of rebellion and riots, it was clear that the Civil Rights Movement could no longer exist as
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The movement became more radical by expanding from the South to Northern and Western states, incorporating resistance methods, embracing “Black Power”, and connecting domestic struggles with national and international struggles. Around 1964, a lot of attention was focused on the south particularly, Mississippi. Civil Rights organizations such as Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), formed the coalition, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) that organized a voter registration drive known as the Freedom Summer. The Freedom Summer was an effort to increase voter registration in Mississippi and to create Freedom Schools that were designed to empower the Black youth by accompanying their public schooling with …show more content…
One thing that the party was known for was creating the “Ten-Point Program” which encompassed the organizations goals. These goals consisted of wanting freedom, full employment, decent housing, elimination of police brutality, Black men to be exempt from military service, and etc. After the “Ten-Point Program”, Newton became concerned with the police brutality that was happening, and organized armed patrols within the Black Panther Party to follow police officers and monitor their activity. Furthermore, Newton encouraged the notion that the organization should also lead black communities by example by participating in outreach programs such as free breakfast for Black children and offered free healthcare to the residents of the Black ghetto. Similar to Bob Moses and the Freedom Summer volunteers, the Black Panthers wanted to provide hope and courage to the Blacks that were still living in poverty and to motivate them to pursue equality. However, the Black Panthers, just had different tactics to go about achieving equality for
The movement became more radical by expanding from the South to Northern and Western states, incorporating resistance methods, embracing “Black Power”, and connecting domestic struggles with national and international struggles. Around 1964, a lot of attention was focused on the south particularly, Mississippi. Civil Rights organizations such as Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), formed the coalition, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) that organized a voter registration drive known as the Freedom Summer. The Freedom Summer was an effort to increase voter registration in Mississippi and to create Freedom Schools that were designed to empower the Black youth by accompanying their public schooling with …show more content…
One thing that the party was known for was creating the “Ten-Point Program” which encompassed the organizations goals. These goals consisted of wanting freedom, full employment, decent housing, elimination of police brutality, Black men to be exempt from military service, and etc. After the “Ten-Point Program”, Newton became concerned with the police brutality that was happening, and organized armed patrols within the Black Panther Party to follow police officers and monitor their activity. Furthermore, Newton encouraged the notion that the organization should also lead black communities by example by participating in outreach programs such as free breakfast for Black children and offered free healthcare to the residents of the Black ghetto. Similar to Bob Moses and the Freedom Summer volunteers, the Black Panthers wanted to provide hope and courage to the Blacks that were still living in poverty and to motivate them to pursue equality. However, the Black Panthers, just had different tactics to go about achieving equality for