Women and the Black Power Movement: Crash Course Black American History #40

Women have been a powerful (and largely underappreciated) force in the movement for Black equality in the United States. The Black Power Movement is no exception to that trend. Today, we’ll learn about how women contributed to several organizations, including the Black Panthers. We’ll also explore how the Black Arts Movement served as a way for women to empower Black People through creative output.

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VIDEO SOURCES
● Cheryl Clarke, “After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004).
● Ashley D. Farmer, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
● Peniel E. Joseph ed., The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era (New York: Routledge, 2006).
Robyn C. Spencer, The Revolution has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016).

8 Black Panther Party Programs That Were More Empowering Than Federal Government Programs

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