stokely speaks from black power to pan africanism

This is what white society does not wish to face this is why that society prefers to talk about integration. For racism to die, a totally different America must be born. As its grip loosens here and there around the world, the hopes of black Americans become more realistic. For a century, this nation has been like an octopus of exploitation, its tentacles stretching from Mississippi and Harlem to South America, the Middle East, southern Africa, and Vietnam the form of exploitation varies from area to area but the essential result has been the same-a powerful few have been maintained and enriched at the expense of the poor and voiceless colored masses. The colonies of the United States-and this includes the black ghettoes within its borders, north and south-must be liberated. Ultimately, the economic foundations of this country must be shaken if black people are to control their lives. Garvey’s philosophy of Pan-Africanism re-emerged in the 1960s in the cry for “Black Power.” The following excerpt from Kwame Touré’s “What We Want” offers a rationale for the notion of an independent Black community. Early in this century, Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey urged American Black people to reject the dream of integration and to return to Africa. Nearly every wave of immigrants to this country has at least initially tried to maintain the integrity of its native culture. Separatism, the determination of a particular group of people to resist assimilating to the majority culture, has a long history in the United States.

The emergence of the Black Power movement marked a shift in the public perception of the U.S. His use of the term “Black Power” after James Meredith’s March Against Fear in 1966 popularized the idea. Stokely Carmichael, first with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and then with the Black Panthers, was among the first to articulate the difference between the Black Power and Civil Rights Movements.

Stokely speaks from black power to pan africanism