It appears obvious, that the people, who put the term into use, were aiming at the same goals as seen by the civil rights activists. Principles of equality and equal opportunities were primary for them. The term was first used by Richard Wright. The book was actually named “Black Power”...

Though in the common American historical narrative concerning the African American experience, African Americans are commonly represented as tacit subordinates to a systemized form of national and local oppression in the form of White governments and White enterprises, there is a long history of African American violent resistance that generally...