Influence of the Black Panthers
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- Created on: 29-05-17 21:48
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- 'The Black Panthers achieved little of note.' How far do you agree with this view? (20 marks)
- Thesis: The Black Panthers achieved little of note
- Political and social independence
- Failed to solve ghetto problems, but they were probably insoluble given white unwillingness to fund improvements
- Self-defence perceived as violence
- Alienated allies/ thwarted further progression of civil rights
- Alienated women through allegations of sexism
- Huey P. Newton/ Bobby Seale
- Alienated women through allegations of sexism
- Cesar Chavez was more like King - shows the failures of radicalisation
- Unrealistic in 'revolutionary' ideals
- Hostility from white authorities/ white liberal funding/ Nixon administration
- Targeted heavily by the FBI e.g. the Chicago Eight (conspired a race riot at the DNC in 1968)
- Alienated allies/ thwarted further progression of civil rights
- Confusion over definition
- Declined by the early 1970s
- Poorly organised
- Political and social independence
- Antithesis
- Meant different things to different people "deliberate attempt to make it ambiguous.. so that it meant everything to everybody"
- Achievements were symbolic rather than substantive
- Racial pride
- Encouraged college courses on black history and culture
- Inspired Red Power/ Feminism/ Chicano movement
- Racial pride
- Encouraged white support of affirmative action
- Excelled in practical help: 40 clinics on health, welfare and legal rights. Breakfast programmes for poor black schoolchildren/ awareness for sickle cell anaemia
- 1969 - Liberation School (summer school for black kids in Berkeley) sub. in NY/Philadelphia
- Police brutality
- Presented a strong.fearless backlash (self defence, uniforms, rhetoric)
- Media attention
- Introduction
- Aims: full employment, decent housing, black education, worldwide working-class struggle, reparations, self-determination, end to police brutality, ghetto improvements
- Large influence despite 5,000 members
- Thesis: The Black Panthers achieved little of note
- Black Power was successful
- Black Power was unsuccessful
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