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The Forerunners
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) and the Tuskegee Institute -- black self-help
- Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association -- "back to Africa" (Black Star Line)
- Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) and the Nation of Islam
- Haile Selassie and Ethiopian Resistance to Italian Fascism (1935)
- Leopold Senghor (1906 - ) and Négritude
- Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) and Pan-Africanism
Robert F. Williams
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racism in Monroe, North Carolina
- advocates armed self-defense
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framed and escapes to Cuba, China
- Republic of New Africa
Malcolm X
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prison experiences and the Black Muslims
- condemns King's March on Washington
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breaks with Elijah Muhammed and forms Organization for African American Unity
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UN Petition on Genocide
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February 21, 1965 -- assassinated.
"Black Power" and Black Separatism
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SNCC and the departure of whites (1965)
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Black Power -- Stokely Carmichael and Mark Hamilton's book
- cultural nationalism and Afrocentrism -- "Afros", clothes, Kwanzaa (Ron Karenga)
Ghetto Rebellions
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
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Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded 1966 in Oakland
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