Continuities and Changes: Civil Rights and Black Power
Description:
The narratives of the Civil Rights Movement and the era of Black Power are generally
viewed as distinct eras on the timeline of American History- The Black Power
Movement is viewed as the end and, indeed the tragic death knell, of the aims and
aspirations of Civil Rights Movement-
History, however, presents us a more nuanced and complicated record of the Long
Civil Rights Movement- As we know, Marcus Garvey, in the 192os, gave rise to
sentiments of Black Pride and Pan Africanism that resound in the discouse of human
and civil rights politics of the 196os- Using the breadth of primary and secondary
sou'ce material covered in the this cou'se, consider the Long Civil Rights Movement,
and the varied methods and arenas in which women, men, and chilcten crusaded for
Black equity and equality in the United States- Be sue to discuss the aims of Civil
Rights and Black Power leaders and organizations, and the obstruction and resistance
did they encountered- Did the Black Power Movement eclipse the Civil Rights
Movement? Was the Black Power Movement a break from the classical Civil Rights
activism of the 195os and early 196os?