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All power to the people
Title
All power to the people: the Black Panther Party as the vanguard of the oppressed.
Creator
Berman, Matthew., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The Black Panther Party was the most famous group born out of the Black Power Movement. Because of the group's inherent link to the Black Power Movement, and the group's slogan of "Black Power," many people, both black and white, believed, and continue to believe, that the Black Panther Party was a group with racial motives. However, this conceptualization of the Party was, and is, incorrect. While the Black Panther Party began as an outgrowth of the black civil rights movement, the Panthers...
Show moreThe Black Panther Party was the most famous group born out of the Black Power Movement. Because of the group's inherent link to the Black Power Movement, and the group's slogan of "Black Power," many people, both black and white, believed, and continue to believe, that the Black Panther Party was a group with racial motives. However, this conceptualization of the Party was, and is, incorrect. While the Black Panther Party began as an outgrowth of the black civil rights movement, the Panthers quickly evolved into a revolutionary vanguard with a non-racial, class-oriented agenda.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77656, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77656
Subject Headings
African Americans, Politics and government, Civil rights movements, History, Black nationalism, History
Format
Document (PDF)
grassroots gospel
Title
The grassroots gospel: how spirituals and freedom songs democratized the Civil Rights Movement.
Creator
Bimmler, Lauren., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The presence of music, especially in the form of freedom songs, is a notable constant in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Participants sang spirituals and freedom songs everywhere in the South - at mass meetings, demonstrations, and in jails. An engaging and participatory activity, singing unified, empowered, and historicized activists, allowing everyone an opportunity to be included in the action. Without these songs, the African-American communities across the...
Show moreThe presence of music, especially in the form of freedom songs, is a notable constant in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Participants sang spirituals and freedom songs everywhere in the South - at mass meetings, demonstrations, and in jails. An engaging and participatory activity, singing unified, empowered, and historicized activists, allowing everyone an opportunity to be included in the action. Without these songs, the African-American communities across the South may not have been able to band together to become such a force for change; while the activists were the facilitators for progress, the songs were the inspiration. Freedom songs democratized the Civil Rights Movement, enabling the participation of ordinary people at a grassroots level, therefore creating a strong mass movement.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77657, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77657
Subject Headings
Civil rights movements, History, Protest songs, History and criticism, African Americans, Civil rights, History and criticism, Spirituals (Songs), History and criticism
Format
Document (PDF)