Significance of Black Power

• Black Power Movement contributed to the growing black pride
• Black Power Movement raised black morale especially by encouraging college courses on black history & culture
• Black Power failed to solve ghetto problems but they were probable insoluble given white unwillingness to fund improvements
• • Disagreement over the impact of Black Power in relation to violence- what most black Americans considered to be self-defence- most white Americans perceived as violence
  • Some suggest that self-defence/violence alienated whites & damaged that previously effective civil rights movement so that it was unable to achieve much after 1965- impossibility of progress in dealing with the ghetto problems
  • Black Power Movement played a part in encouraging some white support affirmative action
• Black Power helped to inspire radical Native Americans, women & Hispanic Americans