she was said to be eroding Black manhood, to be hindering the progress of the Black race. She was an enemy of the Black people[...] I knew I had to muster something mighty to manage the Black Panther Party
The civil rights movement in the United States is a bit hard to pin down in terms of time. The struggle for Black Americans' human rights stretches back to the country's earliest days, and in some ways people would say it continues on today. The traditional timeline says that the movement...
Carmichael became the honorary prime minister of the Black Panther Party, but resigned when the Panthers began forming alliances with radical whites. Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture, after African socialist leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekou Toure. He moved to Guinea in 1969, and supp...
Du Bois’ ideas about the importance of education would be present again during the Harlem Renaissance. During the Harlem Renaissance, Du Bois argued that racial equality could be gained through the arts. Using his influence as editor of the Crisis magazine, Du Bois promoted the work of many A...