How did the Black Power movement originate?
The black power movement was propelled by anger, which had “been given fuel by incident after incident, disappointment after disappointment, in the drive for civil rights. In the minds of the Student Committee members, the most damning indictment of white society [was] the fact that there [were] more than 30 civil rights killings in the [previous] decade and only three convictionsnone for more than 10 years.
