Systematic Racism
Looking to escape the legal segregation of the South and the limited economic opportunities of rural southern communities, African Americans flocked to the North in what is known as the Second Great Migration. From 1940 to 1970, a quarter of all African Americans living in the United States left the south and moved to northern cities.[1] In general, lacking the necessary skills or education, and faced with the ramifications of systematic racism many African Americans arriving in northern cities found themselves without work, and as a result northern cities filled with either underemployed or unemployed African Americans.[2]
As it turned out, by the 1950’s, the North and South had a lot more in common than they did in 1861. Systematic racism …show more content…
Civil Rights leaders like Reverend King picked up on the tension that still existed and the failures of the movement, and before his assassination in 1968 grew much more critical of the government of its failures in easing racial tensions. After King'sKings assassination on April 4th 1968, riots bursted across 110 of America’s largest cities. These riots furthered the sentiment of the Watts riots in LA in 1965, and Detroit in 1967 that racial discrimination, in housing, education, and job opportunities had come to a paramount and that something had to be done about it. The Black Power movement and subsequent Black Panther Party were both responses to the unfulfilled needs of African American communities following the Ccivil Rrights Mmovement, and advocated violence if necessary to achieve their …show more content…
Carmichael and others believed that the key to liberation from the oppression of white society was the creation of a separate black identity and community in the United States. Carmichael believed that by forcing African Americans to denounce their skin color and identity that it contributed to racism, and in response, sought to elevate the status of African Americans by reclaiming their identity and what it meant. The Black Power movement differed from the Civil Rights movement in that nonviolencenon-violence was a luxury that white society “does not deserve” and as such, advocated the use of violence as a means of social justice. Groups like the Black Panthers took to heart what civil rights leaders like Carmichael were saying and
As it turned out, by the 1950’s, the North and South had a lot more in common than they did in 1861. Systematic racism …show more content…
Civil Rights leaders like Reverend King picked up on the tension that still existed and the failures of the movement, and before his assassination in 1968 grew much more critical of the government of its failures in easing racial tensions. After King'sKings assassination on April 4th 1968, riots bursted across 110 of America’s largest cities. These riots furthered the sentiment of the Watts riots in LA in 1965, and Detroit in 1967 that racial discrimination, in housing, education, and job opportunities had come to a paramount and that something had to be done about it. The Black Power movement and subsequent Black Panther Party were both responses to the unfulfilled needs of African American communities following the Ccivil Rrights Mmovement, and advocated violence if necessary to achieve their …show more content…
Carmichael and others believed that the key to liberation from the oppression of white society was the creation of a separate black identity and community in the United States. Carmichael believed that by forcing African Americans to denounce their skin color and identity that it contributed to racism, and in response, sought to elevate the status of African Americans by reclaiming their identity and what it meant. The Black Power movement differed from the Civil Rights movement in that nonviolencenon-violence was a luxury that white society “does not deserve” and as such, advocated the use of violence as a means of social justice. Groups like the Black Panthers took to heart what civil rights leaders like Carmichael were saying and