Workers Black Power + Labour Movement

Question 1

Positive- Malcom x and Populists

Answer 1

Important in winning civil rights as they helped AA workers and the posterior of unions

Question 2

Positive- encouraged

Answer 2

Movement encouraged trade unions to abandon any remaining racist practices

Question 3

Positive- Economic Opportunity Act 1964

Answer 3

May have been influenced by movement

Question 4

Positive- poverty

Answer 4

Helped focus attention on the issue of poverty, may have influenced President Johnson’s policy of Great Societu

Question 5

Negative- trade unions

Answer 5

Did little to promote equal opportunities for unskilled AA worker

Question 6

Negative- violence

Answer 6

Violence of black power movement lost support of AA and may have limited their influence

Question 7

Negative- divisions

Answer 7

BP put emphasis on the differences between white and black Americans. More divisions —> divided civil right and trade union movement as it emphasised AA solidarity rather than work unity