Black Power

Question 1

Gains for AAs

Answer 1

Created greater interested in AA cultures - courses at Universities
Greater publicity of AA issues - 1968 Mexico Olympics
Shift to idpol - inspired gay rights and second-wave feminism

Question 2

Limitations for AAs

Answer 2

Divisions between whites and AAs increased
Weakened support for moderate civil rights reform
Divisions between AAs - MLK criticised the movement in 1967
Power of the US state too great - police/FBI repression

Question 3

Gains for labour

Answer 3

Encouraged TUs to abandon racist practices
Civil rights legislation - Economic Opportunity Act, 1964
Helped focus on the issue of poverty - Great Society
Inspired affirmative action?
Practical help for AAs in ghettos

Question 4

Limitations for labour

Answer 4

Violence lost support and influence
Bad for integration of TUs - separatism
Not a huge focus on workers - poverty > labour
Lacked concern about TUs
Focus on AA culture

Question 5

Influence on Red Power

Answer 5

AIM - militancy
BPs sought to create unity - healing tribal divisions
Red Power - the name and berrets
Tactics - siege of Alcatraz, police cars

Question 6

Little Influence on Red Power

Answer 6

Response to termination policy
NA PGs already having some success - ICC
Growing militancy among youth in response to terrible condidtions
Part of a wider movement

Question 7

Impact on women’s rights

Answer 7

Stressing AA culture - allowed AA women to be proud ‘black is beautiful’
Women active in BP - 2/3rds of its members n the 1970s
Inspired female political action
Idpol - second-wave feminism

Question 8

Negative impact on women’s rights

Answer 8

Feminism was seen as a white woman’s thing
Separatist organisations had opposed birth control
Revolutionary violence seen as too male
Produce further conservative backlash