After the Civil Rights Movement, it was evident that, although voting rights and some legislative support for Black people had been established, social inequality in terms of race was still a rampant issue. Growing impatient with the method of peaceful protesting and weary of being stomped under the premise of white supremacy, the emergence of Black nationalism surged. These Black Nationalist movements promoted the empowerment of the Black race and fought against the racist ideologies which had served to suppress them. Two prominent movements which arose in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party. These movements were highly controversial because they were no longer using the methods imposed by the
