BLACK POWER: African Americans

Question 1

Wider Debate

Answer 1

• Some historians have argued that MX and BP’s militant stance pressured the Federal Gov into action and reinvigorated the CRM by making it move away from Southern Jim Crow based issues to those facing the rest of the US AA population
• Others have cited its violent and divisive Garveyite-type stance as a return to separatism with its anti-white attitude which in turn led to a backlash and a failure to achieve anything significant

Question 2

Judgement

Answer 2

• Many Black Power groups such as the Black Panthers weren’t interested in the acquistion of legal and political rights
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