Black Power
Meaning
Noun
- A slogan and movement supporting Black self-determination and sometimes separatism, especially in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
Origin
- From Richard Wright's book Black Power (1954), describing his travels to the Gold Coast and the rise of Pan-Africanism. In a US context later popularized by Stokely Carmichael.
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