Black Power Movement (United States)

Abstract

The Black Power movement emerged in the mid‐1960s United States inspired by the victories of the civil rights movement and responding to its limitations. Civil rights mobilization had successfully pressured the federal government to dismantle de jure segregation, but was incapable of redressing persistent black ghettoization. Black Power activists sought to combat institutionalized racism characterized by poor‐quality education, a lack of jobs, political marginalization, and containment policing.