The emergence of the black power movement in the early 1960's corresponded with the success for the civil rights campaigns. The focus on the campaigns meant that the practical issues relating to social and economic factors didnt improve.

However not all of the movement was unsuccessful there was a number of factors that did contribute to achieving the rights of African Americans, many of these where based with the Black panthers and other individuals that helped to make an impression on the US government.

Individuals such as Martin Luther King helped to move the black power movement forward as he was co-operative with the white US government, and acted as an American citizen. So in this sense the government helped, or so this would seem from Malcolm x’s statement about King being paid by the government to preach Christianity, so there for the government would have been impacted by King, as he speaks to his own race but preaches white teachings.
Along with King, groups such as The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and The National Urban League (NUL) were seen as moderate groups, meaning that they co-operated with whites and they were committed to working through the courts and were willing to work with whites.
So from this it can be suggested that groups such as this made large impacts upon the white society, as it showed that only a small handful of blacks were hostile towards whites. Making the movement better for those who were peaceful.
These groups found peaceful ways to protest and the methods worked, and when defending themselves they didn’t have to use violence but protection.
Groups such as NACCP and SCLC campaigned to force white schools to accept black students; this campaign was known as the case of Brown v the Board of Education of 1954. This helped the movement as not only was it showing the willingness of  blacks to work with whites but it also meant young generations were able to get a good education.
The largest impact and success of the movement was based around the Black Panthers this was because they set up a number of survival programmes that aimed to make the lives of African Americans better. These programmes included:
  -   Free breakfast for school children programme

• Free Health Clinics
• Free liberation schools

These programmes were very successful, especially due to the health clinics, as they were able to offer tests for a blood condition known as Sickle Cell Disease, which commonly affected black people. They also brought awareness of the disease to the government who then gave money to enable research for treatments.
The black panthers also made improvements to the movement with the idea of ‘patrol the pigs’ this involved the panthers using the law against the police when they tried to arrest black citizens, the panthers would question the police and tell the ‘criminal’ their legal rights, this helped to highlight police abuse towards African Americans and improve their lives.
More generally, Black Power offered black people a sense of their own culture and pride in their identity. The late 1960s saw changes in music, fashion and style that celebrated black identity rather than attempting to look like whites, such as the Afro hairstyles, the growth of a new soul music and the later development of hip-hop and rap.

It is difficult to measure the results, but it can be argued that by helping to maintain attention on the problems and demanding change, the Black Power movements helped the black communities to keep fighting for better conditions. By comparison with the gains made through ‘peaceful’ protest, the impact of Black Power was mixed and its achievements limited, but to claim that it achieved nothing for black people is an exaggeration.