Civil Rights Movement Vs Black Power Movement

Despite the fact that the Civil Rights and the Black Power movement are usually regarded as compatible, Integrationists and Separatists had the same ultimate goal but had contradicting ideas of how it could be accomplished. The Black Power Separatist movement did arise from the Civil Rights movement because of the dissatisfaction among the black community after Brown vs. Board and the Civil rights Act. Both had demolished some form of de jure segregation but they did not seem to have had much effect on de facto segregation. Although both groups were fundamentally compatible in their objective for an ultimately unsegregated society, the black power movement wanted to establish control among the black community before integration while integrationists were fighting the uphill battle towards equality through concrete integration.
Although both groups were fighting for equality among the black community, integrationists and separatists were different in the way they viewed how to work together with the white community to spark change. Because …show more content…
At the funeral for four girls killed in a church bombing in Birmingham, Dr. King, a key player in the integrationist nonviolent movement, urged that blacks remained hopeful and that they “must not lose faith in our white brothers. Somehow we must believe that the most misguided among them can learn to respect the dignity and the worth of all human personality” (King, 26). Although the loss of the four girls was a devastation for the community, Dr. King stuck with the approach of nonviolence, confident in its ability to not only to invoke a moral awakening among whites but prove that fighting back was not essential for change. However, the Black Power movement, led mainly by Malcolm X clearly addressed whites as the oppressors