Black Power And King's Northern Strategy- Changing Patterns And Approaches

Question 1

Lourdes County Freedom Org

Answer 1

1965, Stokely Carmichael, leaders of SNCC, set up with panther symbol

Question 2

Why did radical resistance begin?

Answer 2

Realisation non violent protest wasn’t working
Wanted SNCC and other campaigns to radicalise and exclude white campaigners
Suggested ‘Black Power’ slogan and symbol of raised fist (1968 Olympics)

Question 3

Black Panthers

Answer 3

Adopted Panther symbol
Worked in communities to keep order
Wore uniform and carried guns

Question 4

Riots

Answer 4

In major cities
Set off largely by police brutality
Media: show young black men as aggressive rather than police brutality

Question 5

Why The Northern Crusade 1966

Answer 5

King focuses on North and to overcome overcrowding such as in ghettoes
Crusade established to improve slums by setting up tenant unions, working conditions and teaching young people about protest
Focus on Chicago

Question 6

Result of the northern crusade

Answer 6

Brought no permanent change- harder to get political support for social issue rather than segregation

Question 7

Achievements of Civil Rights by 1980

Answer 7

More pressure from fed Gov’t to make equality happen
BA upper and middle class developed
Black people featured more on TV
More books and magazines published
Increase in no of voters and in home ownership/ graduates

Question 8

Limitations by 1980

Answer 8

BA still made to feel unequal by WA in the same social spheres
People felt issue had been solved
‘Minority quota’: felt there not on merit
Radicalisation and riots made WA less sympathetic
Poor for poorer
BA babies higher mortality rate and BA school children less likely to succeed