Transcript Militant Methods - Wayzata Public Schools

“Say it Loud, I’m Black and Proud”
James Brown, 1968
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Learning Targets
Understand the difference between
the non-violent civil rights movement
and the militant movement
Explain the beliefs and actions of the
Black Panther Party (BPP)
Describe and evaluate the FBI’s
treatment of the BPP
Accurately portray the beliefs and
actions of the Black Panther Party
Plan
1. Notes, video clips, & discussion
2. Examine “coloring book” of BPP;
discuss.
3. Read about Black Panther Party’s
Ten Point Plan.
4. Create own realistic coloring
book.
Stokely Carmichael
Nonviolent movement too slow
Called for black pride and power
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“The only time, I hear people
Talk about nonviolence is when
black people move to defend
Themselves against white people.”
-- Stokley Carmichael
“It is clear to me that we have to wage a psychological battle on the right for black
people to define their own terms, define themselves as they see fit and organize
themselves as they see it.”
-- Stokely Carmichael
“If I win I am an American, not a black American. But if I did something bad then they
would say a ‘Negro.’ We are black and we are proud of being black. Black American
will understand what we did tonight.”
--Tommie Smith
U.S. athletes, having placed gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the 200m dash at the 1968 Olympics,
stepped onto the podium, shoeless, wearing black socks, and, as “The Star-Spangled Banner” sounded,
lowered their heads, and raised gloved, Black power fist salutes to the heavens. (LIFE -John Dominis)
Malcolm X
“Whatever means necessary”
Black pride, self-defense &
separatism
"Concerning nonviolence: It is criminal to teach a
man not to defend himself, when he is the constant
victim of brutal attacks. It is legal and lawful to own
a shotgun or a rifle. We believe in obeying the law.“
Malcolm X
“While King was having a dream, the rest of us
Negroes are having a nightmare.”
Malcolm X
The Black Panther Party
(BPP)
Why? - racial tension and police brutality
Self-defense against racist authorities
Ten-Point Program
1966:
661 white police
16 black police
The Ten Point Plan
1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our
Black Community.
2. We want full employment for our people.
3. We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black
Community.
4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this
decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our
true history and our role in the present-day society.
6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service.
7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black
people.
8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and
city prisons and jails.
9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a
jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as
defined by the Constitution of the United States.
10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.
And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised
plebiscite for Black Americans to determine their will as to their
national destiny.
BPP Actions
Patrolled the streets to monitor police
“Breakfast for Children” program
Spread across U.S.
“police the
police”
carrying:
•Guns for
self-defense
•Recorders
•Law books
BPP Actions
B.P.P. 1971 Intercommunal Youth Institute Children (Liberty Schools)
Conflict with the Law
Sacramento gun law protest
Police & FBI target
shootouts in CA, Chicago & NY
BPP wanted 2nd amendment right!
COINTELPRO
WHAT: FBI’s Counterintelligence
program
PURPOSE: expose & disrupt
activities of Black Nationalists, esp.
BPP
HOW: anonymous letters, fake
coloring book, pressure on
employers
Black Panther Coloring
Book
Why do you think Cointelpro
distributed these coloring books?
What was their intended purpose?
How might a white person in the
late 1960s react to the coloring
book? A black person?
What impact could this have had
on the Black Panther Party?