To do this, we must first redefine ourselves.

Black people in the United States must raise hard questions, questions which challenge the very nature of the society itself: its long-standing values, beliefs, and institutions.

This is especially true when that group is composed of black people in the American society-a society that has for centuries deliberately and systematically excluded them from political participation. wrote in Politics, Parties and Pressure Groups, “a new group may have to fight for reorientation of many of the values of the old order” (p. “To carve out a place for itself in the politico-social order,” V. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. Hamilton, copyright © 1967 by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton. Black Power by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Source: Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and Charles V. On June 16 they reached Greenwood, Mississippi, where Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998), the newly elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (See Statement of Purpose), led participants in a rally, over Martin Luther King Jr.’s objection, in a chant: “We want Black Power!” The slogan caught on, especially among younger, more radicalized supporters and participants in the black freedom movement, and thenceforward the factional divisions in the movement deepened significantly.Ĭarmichael explained the fuller meaning of Black Power in the book excerpted here, coauthored with Columbia University political science professor Charles Hamilton. As he convalesced in a hospital, leaders of prominent black freedom organizations promised Meredith they would continue his effort. Meredith had planned to march from Memphis to Jackson to encourage voter registration by black citizens in the Deep South.

On June 6, 1966, James Meredith, an Air Force veteran and the first black American to attend the University of Mississippi, was one day into his solitary “March against Fear” when he was shot by a sniper just outside Hernando, Mississippi.

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