Black Power

Black Power What did the phrase "black power" mean to African Americans who participated in the civil rights struggle? Booker T. Washington felt that black power meant financial power. During the movement that would soon be a landmark in our country's history, the black community lacked black owned businesses, black teachers, and black government representatives. Because blacks were without these things it was impossible for them as a group to attain financial power. The "Black …

…The slogan "Black Power" startled America and captured her attention. It showed white America that the people they called "pickinannie" and "nigger" were serious about claiming what had been stolen from them more than a century ago, their pride. "Black Power" was the child of frustration and hunger and the motto that helped fuel some positive changes for our country's so-called "equality" standard. Like the old saying goes, "You gotta do, what you gotta do."