![]() ![]() It seemed to offer, or augur, an exciting new brand of radicalism, and revolutionary confrontation, in the movement’s next phase.įor all that initial excitement, however, Black Power was always a concept in search of its object. I remember that galvanizing moment very clearly I was then a 19-year-old college student and felt a powerful rush from two snippets of the chant I heard in the press coverage of the moment when Black Power was born, as both a slogan and a movement. ![]() On that date, Willie Ricks, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary, and Stokely Carmichael, SNCC’s new national chair, electrified the crowd in Greenwood, Mississippi, on the March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi, when they began chanting “Black Power! Black Power!” The chant-and Carmichael’s speech before the gathering-sent shock waves through the news cycle. ![]() June 16, 1966, isn’t on the commemorative calendar in black American politics, but it probably should be. ![]()
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