1. Black Power
By: Andrew Ashton

2. Black Power’s Antecedents
• Malcolm X
• Learned Islam in prison
• Conversion of Cassius Clay
• Loudest Voice of Civil Rights Movement
• Non-believer in non violent resistance
• “Message to the Grassroots”
• OAAU
• Assassination
• Bandung 1955
• Nonviolent self-defense groups in the south

3. Proclaiming Black Power
• James Meredith
• Stokely Carmichael
• Black Panthers
• Muhammad Ali

4. A Dissident Youth Culture
• Population of African
Americans in white
colleges begins to
grow
• Campus Activism
• The growth of the
Afro

5. Black Artistic Power
• Black Arts Movement
• Black is beautiful
• Blaxploitation Movies

6. Black Feminism
• The Moynihan Report
• The Voice of the Black Women
• In Search of our Mother’s Gardens:
Womanist Prose
• NCNW
• WICS

7. Black Feminism Cont.
• NBFO
• TWAA

8. Social and Political Realities
• Unemployment Rate
• Violence and Riots
• Martin Luther King
assassination

9. The 1968 Olympics

10. Importance and Legacy
• Using education to it’s fullest
• Black Women Leaders in Feminism
• Finally doing something about it
• Showed the artistic side of African
Americans
• Showed the African American community is
strong, and will always stick to their beliefs

11. References
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhv1g0sIpY
• http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/06/Court-
Rules-DOJ-Politicized-Black-Panther-Case-Awards-JW-Court-Fees
• http://www.businessinsider.com/nba-draft-lucas-nogueira-afro-
pictures-2013-6
• http://www.drmasonsclasses.com/blackwomenwriters/archives/159
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• http://www.flickriver.com/photos/japaneseforms/281359705/
• http://care2playsports.com/?p=256
• http://saleemimd.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/muhammed-ali-with-
malcolm-x/
• http://chasepublic.com/?attachment_id=888
• http://globalsolutions.org/blog/2012/07/olympics-series-week-3-
saluting-equality-1968-games