US History Review Sheet -Black Power, Eisenhower's foreign policy and the Battle of Gettysburg

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21. Assess the aims and impacts of the black panthers between 1966 and the 1970s

- Build up to the idea of Black Power:

- In 1965, a white Norther man, named Reverend James Reeb, was shot and killed in Alabama.

- James Reeb was a Northern civil rights activist who was killed by a white segregationist

- The murder was being lamented all over the country (by white people mainly), and was even being talked about in newspapers and broadcasting

- News of the attack provoked a national outcry -- Most blacks were angry that the white death was getting a large amount of attention -- Stokely Carmichael said "movement was playing into the hands of racism" --death caused a problem in the movement because white death was getting more publicity than the movement itself was.

- The idea of black power started to form (Stokely Carmichael founded the idea)

- Basics of Black Power:

- White people can't truly understand or relate to the black experience. Whites can have sympathy towards the movement, but never empathy.

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