Decline of the Civil Rights Movement

Think about the narrative of the formal Civil Rights Movement 1954-1965. Then reflect on Jaqueline Dowd Halls discussion of the late 1960s and the history of the Black Power Movement in “Political Uses of the Past”: The literature on the post-sixties is still in its infancy and except in accounts of the womens and gay rights movements scholars left right and center have told stories of declension. A burst of new work on the black power movement however has departed from that model documenting “an African American . . . political renaissance” in the 1970s in which advocates of black political power put forth a program of urban reform that echoed the demands raised thirty years before. Studies of other aspects of the black freedom movement in the North also offer powerful evidence that the civil rights movement did not die when it “went north” in the late 1960s in part because it had been north all along. Still needed is more research on all aspects of the movement of movements in the post-sixties that rivals in nuance and complexity what we know about the classical phase. (emphasis added Hall 1254 ) After completing the readings and watching the documentaries for this week post a reflection to the following question on the discussion board: Did the Black Power Movement signal the decline of the Civil Rights Movement? When answering this question be sure to consider the following: How might Penial Joseph and Alondra Nelsons history of Black Power help us see Black Power and the Black Panthers in particular as a continuation of the Civil Rights Movement? How does Episode 12 of Eyes on the Prize force us to reconsider the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the narrative of decline or failure as it pertains to Black Power? When answering the question be sure to engage and cite sources from this weeks readings. https://saintpeters.kanopy.com/video/nation-law Requirements: 500 Words ‘