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| − | The '''Black Power''' movement of the 1960s was a revolutionary movement among [[African American]]s which rejected many of the basic non-violent and cooperationist tenets of the civil rights movement in favor of a fundamental reordering of an American society that adherents saw as fundamentally racist. In its most extreme incarnations, Black Power ideology violently rejected [[white]]s as terminally [[evil]]. | + | The '''Black Power''' movement of the 1960s was a revolutionary movement among [[African American]]s which rejected many of the basic non-violent and cooperationist tenets of the civil rights movement in favor of a fundamental reordering of an American society that adherents saw as fundamentally racist. In its most extreme incarnations, Black Power ideology violently rejected [[white]]s as terminally [[evil]]. <ref>http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_whats_holding_blacks.html</ref> |
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Revision as of 06:52, March 2, 2008
The Black Power movement of the 1960s was a revolutionary movement among African Americans which rejected many of the basic non-violent and cooperationist tenets of the civil rights movement in favor of a fundamental reordering of an American society that adherents saw as fundamentally racist. In its most extreme incarnations, Black Power ideology violently rejected whites as terminally evil. [1]