BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS/BLACK NATIONALIST CHANTS

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Say It Loud {I'm Black And I'm Proud} should have been listed under the late 1960s

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Also late 1960s


"Free The Panthers!

http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/africanamericanactivism/blackpanther.htm


"In 1969, due to two end-of-decade events, the nation's spotlight was aimed on the New Haven, Connecticut, singeing a hole in the Black Panther Party headquarters.

On April 2, 1969, 21 Panther members were arrested and charged with conspiracy to blow up the New York Botanical Gardens and several department stores, and to assassinate police officers. The following month on May 21, the slain body of Alex Rackley, Black Panther Party member, was discovered in a swamp in Middlefield, Connecticut. FBI agents and New Haven Police officials wasted no time and raided the Panther's headquarters, searching for evidence. That same day, eight of the local chapter's members and the party's notorious national chairman, Bobby Seale, were arrested and charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy.

A group of Northeastern University students sympathized with the plight of the Black Panthers and wanted to demonstrate their support to the Boston community. In April 1970, the Black Panther Support Group formed on Northeastern's campus. The organization's mission was to educate students, increasing their understanding of the trials of Bobby Seale, the New York 21, and the Black Panther Party. One of their first actions was to name April 14th Bobby Seale Day. The group also strived to tie Northeastern to its surrounding community by initiating a campaign to provide funds and supplies for a medical center in Roxbury and by proposing to Northeastern's Student Council to start a hot breakfast program for children in Roxbury and Cambridge.

On the afternoon of April 7, the Black Panther Support Group's agenda became evident. Carrying "Free the Panthers" signs and chanting revolutionary slogans, 70 Northeastern students marched from Krentzman Quad through downtown Boston to Post Office Square, the city-wide protest's first meeting point. There, the students were joined by 1,930 other protesters who also wished to demonstrate support for the Black Panthers during the New Haven murder trials.

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"Black Power!

See this excerpt from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power

"Black Power was a political movement among persons of African descent throughout the world, though it is often associated primarily with African Americans in the United States. Most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the movement emphasized racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests, advance black values, and secure black autonomy.

The first person to use the term "Black Power" in a political context was Robert F. Williams, an NAACP chapter president, writer, and publisher of the 1950s and 1960s.[citation needed] However the first usage of "Black Power" as a slogan is generally credited to Mukasa Dada (then known as Willie Ricks) and Stokely Carmichael, both organizers and spokespersons for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)."


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Caller-"Ungawa" *
Response- "Black Powa"

* "Ungawa" or "Umgawa" or some such word was meant to be an imitation of what we {Black Americans} thought was how African language. However, I don't think it was meant to be insulting...I think we considered it a creative, light hearted exercise in rhyming. "Powa" rhymed with the "gah-wah" ending of the made up word "Ungawa".