He knows what white power is, and he ought to know what Black power is.” Any white man in this country knows about power. Carmichael once said, “When you talk about Black power, you talk about bringing this country to its knees any time it messes with the Black man…. After Carmichael uttered the slogan, Black power groups began forming across the country, putting forth different ideas of what the phrase meant. King believed “Black power” meant "different things to different people,” and he was right. Meredith survived but was unable to continue marching.Īctivist, author, and scholar Angela Davis, one of the most iconic faces of the movement, later told the Nation, "The movement was a response to what were perceived as the limitations of the civil rights movement.… Although Black individuals have entered economic, social, and political hierarchies, the overwhelming number of Black people are subject to economic, educational, and carceral racism to a far greater extent than during the pre-civil rights era.” What did the movement stand for?ĭr. That’s where a white man, Aubrey James Norvell, shot Meredith in the head, neck, and back. On his second day, June 6, Meredith crossed the Mississippi border (by this point he’d been joined by a small number of supporters, reporters, and photographers). On June 5, 1966, he began his 220-mile trek, equipped with nothing but a helmet and walking stick. Meredith’s “March Against Fear” was a protest against the fear instilled in Black Americans who attempted to register to vote, and the overall culture of fear that was part of day-to-day life. Four years after James Meredith became the first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, he embarked on a solo walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi. Here’s what to know about how the Black power movement started and what it stood for. Its legacy is still felt today in the work of the movement for Black lives. The movement called for Black Americans to create their own cultural institutions, take pride in their heritage, and become economically independent. That was the case for the Black power movement, an outgrowth of the civil rights movement that emerged in the 1960s with calls to reject slow-moving integration efforts and embrace self-determination. But social justice movements have long been accelerated by radicals and activists who have tried to force that arc to bend faster. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous line about the long arc of the moral universe slowly bending toward justice.
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