1. Collect and complete the Black Panther Goals Sheet!
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Collect and complete the Black Panther Goals Sheet!

2. Aim: How did frustration with nonviolence lead to black radicalism?
Shift to Radicalism
Aim: How did frustration with nonviolence lead to black radicalism?

3. The Shift
During the late 1960s the character of the civil rights movement began to change.
Many African Americans embraced separatism, or the racial separation of blacks and whites.
Some of these freedom fighters saw Malcolm X as a hero.

4. Malcolm X Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little.
His father was murdered by a group of white men when he was 6.
Malcolm joined the national of Islam after spending time in Jail.
He advocated fighting racism any way necessary including with violence.

5. Malcolm Video/Speech

6. Black Power
During a march in June of ‘66 Stokely Carmichael, SNCC chairman passionately addressed the crowd:
“ We been saying freedom for years and we ain’t got nothin’. What we gonna start saying now is black power.”
Overnight “Black Power” became a slogan for for militant blacks who agreed with Carmichael.

7. Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African American organization founded to promote civil rights and self-defense.
Founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in October 1966, the organization initially called for armed resistance to societal oppression in the interest of African American justice.

8. Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton

14. Activity
The Civil rights movement inspired a series of groups to join and widen the struggle for civil rights.
The widening civil rights movement orchestrated a tumultuous period characterized by activism that has seldom been matched in US history.
For each movement record notes about the group, its goals, and the methods used to achieve them.