Black Power
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What did the phrase "" mean to African Americans who participated in the civil rights struggle? Booker T. Washington felt that 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 ....
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.... was the first African American to attend the previously all white University of Mississippi.
In another incident a gentleman named Robert F. Williams had, in his words, "organized a Negro community [meeting] in the South to take up arms in self defense against racist violence and use them!" When night
riders of the KKK and police cars approached his house where the meeting was held, Williams and others fired their guns until their oppressors left. Williams went on later to write (concernin ....
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