History A-Level
Black Power
What Black Power means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Black Power
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A movement that emerged from the mid-1960s through SNCC and the Black Panthers, emphasising racial pride, self-defence and community control, and rejecting nonviolence.
Topics that use Black Power
- The quest for civil rights, 1917–80 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
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- hispanic American campaigns
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- Native American campaigns
- Northern migration (1917–32)
- Segregation and life in the South
- Southern-based campaigning
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