The Black Power Movement In The 1970's

The late 1960s and early 1970s and the 2010s were very different from each other in many ways. Those differences from different decades, centuries even, varying from the way that people talked, the way that people dressed, the way that people thought, and most importantly, the way that people acted on those thoughts.
In the late 1960s to early 70s, the black power movement began to get a more extensive crowd than ever before. African American people began to realize that their voice would make a difference. In this time period the older African Americans looked up to and lived by the words of Martin Luther King Jr., an advocate for the black power movement, who sought equality for the people by peaceful, nonviolent protests. According to Stokely

But, Dr. King began to switch up how he thought about the black power movement. He started to believe that militarism and racism were one and affected each other.
Yet, at the same time that Dr. King was living and advocating the nonviolent protests of the black power movement, the younger African Americans looked up to and lived by the words of Malcolm X, an advocate of the Black Panther Party who sought equality by violence.
Malcolm X saw that nonviolence was not an option, and this younger generation of African
Americans weren’t as patient as Dr. King and sought equality as soon as possible, no matter what way they needed to use. These people saw violence as the only way to get the African American people to be equal with the white people. Malcolm X stated that “As long as a white man does