Articles & Speeches
by Civil Rights Movement Veterans
Black Power

The Basis of Black Power, SNCC position paper, Spring 1966.

The SNCC Trends: Challenge to White America. By Anne Braden, Southern Patriot. May 1966 (after election of Stokely Carmichael as SNCC Chairman)

Integration is completely irrelevant to us, Stokely Carmichael. The Movement, June 1966

Face the Nation Interview With Stokely Carmichael, June 19 1966

"Black Power", Statement by National Committee of Negro Churchmen. New York Times, July 31, 1966. Statement supporting Black Power published two weeks after the call for Black Power created a media frenzy.

What We Want, Stokely Carmichael. N.Y Review of Books. 1966.

Power and Racism, Stokely Carmichael, SNCC. 1966. 10 pages.

Towards Black Liberation, Stokely Carmichael. Massachusetts Review, 1966.

Black Power and Coalition Politics, Bayard Rustin. Commentary, Sept. 1966.

Statement on Poverty, Black Power, and Political Power, Martin Luther King. 1966.

Black Power, Stokely Carmichael. 1966 (Speech, UC Berkeley)

The Singing is Over, Julius Lester, SNCC, The Angry Children of Malcolm X, November 1966

Watts Speech (Black Power), Stokely Carmichael, SNCC. November 26 1966

Power and Racism, Stokely Carmichael. Undated 1966? 1967?

Why They Cry Black Power, SNCC's Version of What Sparked the Racial Outbreak in Atlanta. I.F. Stone. 9/19/66.

Cooperation, Not Competition; Community, Not the Individual, SNCC, 1967. (Statement on education and the Black community.)

Anti-Semitism and Black Power, James Baldwin & Ossie Davis. Freedomways, 1st Quarter, 1967

Speech to Black Caucus of NCNP by James Forman. 1967.

Liberation Will Come From a Black Thing James Forman. Black Workers Congress. 1967

Manifesto To the White Christian Churches and the Jewish Synogogues In the United States of America and All Other Racist Institutions. James Forman, National Black Economic Development Conference. Adopted April 26, 1969, Detroit MI. Proclaimed May 2, 1969, Riverside Church, New York City.

See also
Lowndes County Freedom Organization/Black Panther Party (Multiple articles)
Black Power Documents
Black Power for web links.
Black Power for books.


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