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Black power

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative letter-case form of Black Power. alt-of, uncountable
  2. 2
    A slogan and movement supporting Black self-determination and sometimes separatism, especially in the US in the 1960s and 1970s. uncountable

    "Meanwhile, Black Power groups such as SNCC and the Black Panthers were voicing support for the Arabs against Israel. This sometimes looked like a mere matter of black nationalism; after all, Egypt was a part of Africa, and black nationalist literature sometimes seemed to identify the Arabs as blacks fighting the white Israelis."

Etymology

From Richard Wright's book Black Power (1954), describing his travels to the Gold Coast and the rise of Pan-Africanism. In a US context later popularized by Stokely Carmichael.

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