AAAD 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Sonia Sanchez, Medgar Evers, Maynard Jackson

• School: UNC
• Department: African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
• Course: AAAD 231
• Professor: Griffin, William

Document Summary

Criticize and evaluate actions of intelligence committees. Black power was a new way of framing the civil rights movement by activists mostly from sncc in the south. Black power meant socialist overthrow of the government. Stupid because socialism always part of government programs. Challenged ideas about blackness since new deal. Took over the role of field organizer for naacp in mississippi after medgar. Thought it was disruptive, wrong, and violent. First black elected to political office in mississippi since reconstruction. Said black power was anti-white power called it black supremacy. Black power culture emerges out of black power movement (black arts movement) Afros, black beauty, challenged skin tone stratification present in magazines. James brown: say it loud, i"m black and i"m proud. Preached that loving yourself would make you less likely to hurt other people. First african american woman elected to congress in 1968 (ny) Representative of trend of growing black political power.