Meaning of black power | Babel Free

Definitions

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

“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.”

“I dey talk of Black power, I say (Water, him no get enemy!)”

““Black Power” quickly became the controversial slogan for a movement that was largely perceived as rejecting the civil rights movement's nonviolent tactics and goals of integration in favor of a new ethos of black identity, self-defense and separatism.”

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