Ask students to explain the rise of Black Power in the 1960s and discuss its organized manifestations
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Students will point to young blacks' frustration with the pace of integration coupled with rising unemployment and a lack of opportunities for the emergence of a more militant current within the civil rights movement. Good students will identify Stokely Carmichael and the sit-in movement, the Watts riots, the growth of the Black Muslims under Malcolm X, and the armed presence of the Black Panther Party in most major American cities as expressions of Black Power. In effect, Black Power represented an eclectic response to the perceived inability of more legitimate types of protest to solve the mounting problems facing black youth during the 1960s.
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What will be an ideal response?
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A) ?Japanese B) ?Mexican C) ?Chinese D) ?Irish E) ?German