The Civil Rights Movement began in the 60s as a backlash against racially unfair treatment and attack on the oppressive forces that caused this treatment. Through sit-ins, marches and many other form of peaceful protest the Civil rights moment was able to grow and prosper. The Civil Rights movement evolved the most between the March on Washington in 1963 and protest against the Rodney King verdict in 1992 as a result of the creation and growth of the Black Panther Party, a group that attacked racism and authority with force.
The Black Panther Party was a strong and fearless group that sought to end racial discrimination and on top of that, also get retribution for the past-treatment of black americans.
In his book, A Queer History of the United States, Michael Bronksi writes, “In 1966, the Black Panther Party formed in order to further the Black Power movement using more militant and aggressive tactics than mainstream African American civil rights groups (206)”. The important word to …show more content…
“The rhetoric of black power advocates did catalyze a sea change in the lives of African Americans who had no intention of returning to the lands of their ancestors. Under student pressure, hundreds of colleges initiated courses in black studies, whose ideas and texts soon filtered into the curricula of high schools across the country (Kazin 227).” The message of the Panthers was also spread through art. “James Brown’s 1968 hit ‘I’m Black and I’m Proud’ signaled the arrival of new mass art that mocked assimilation and prized racial authenticity. (Kazin 227).” It was this that expanded another aspect of the Civil Rights Movement which was free expression in media and art that spread across future movements. This was, at the core, the most powerful aspect of the Black Panther Party: it’s
The Black Panther Party was a strong and fearless group that sought to end racial discrimination and on top of that, also get retribution for the past-treatment of black americans.
In his book, A Queer History of the United States, Michael Bronksi writes, “In 1966, the Black Panther Party formed in order to further the Black Power movement using more militant and aggressive tactics than mainstream African American civil rights groups (206)”. The important word to …show more content…
“The rhetoric of black power advocates did catalyze a sea change in the lives of African Americans who had no intention of returning to the lands of their ancestors. Under student pressure, hundreds of colleges initiated courses in black studies, whose ideas and texts soon filtered into the curricula of high schools across the country (Kazin 227).” The message of the Panthers was also spread through art. “James Brown’s 1968 hit ‘I’m Black and I’m Proud’ signaled the arrival of new mass art that mocked assimilation and prized racial authenticity. (Kazin 227).” It was this that expanded another aspect of the Civil Rights Movement which was free expression in media and art that spread across future movements. This was, at the core, the most powerful aspect of the Black Panther Party: it’s