1. - NAACP
- Civil Rights Movement
- Black Panthers
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2. NAACP
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People is
an African-American organization
and it was formed on February 12
in 1909 after the racial riots and the
continuing horrific practice of
lynching.
Their mission was “ To ensure the
political, educational, social and
economic equality of rights of all
persons and to eliminate racial
hatred and racial discrimination."
3. Civil Rights Movement
4 leaders of the Movement, from the left to
the right : W.E.B Du Bois, Malcolm X, Martin
Luther King and Rosa Parks.
The movement was characterized by Major
campaigns of civil resistance.
The civil rights movement consists of
outlawing racial discrimination against
African-American people and restoring
voting rights for them because before they
had no rights and they were dependant of
American White people.
The African-American people obtained the
Rights to vote in 1965 but not in all states.
4. The Black Panther Party
The Black Panthers Party was an Afro-American revolutionary
organization created by Bobby Seale. It was active in the United States
from 1966 until 1982. This party was very popular, for example, the
parents of the famous singer afro american Tupac was in this party.
The “ten point program” of the Black Panthers Party (october, 1966) :
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 to be held throughout the Black colony in which
only Black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate for the
purpose of determining the will of Black people as to their national
destiny.