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Article: Activists gather for discussions on black power: Some see lack of progress, others strides since 1960s.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Byline: Gregory Lewis
Sep. 22--Frustration had overcome Mukasa Willie Ricks, a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee activist, as he raised a clinched fist in the air and shouted, "Black power!" with fellow activist Stokely Carmichael.
He shouted what would become a signature phrase for many young black Americans on June 16, 1966, in Greenwood, Miss., in a watershed moment for the civil rights movement. Black activists like Ricks and Carmichael decided it was time to abandon Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent philosophy for a more militant and aggressive campaign to gain equality.
"It was a time of frustration," Ricks recalled this week. ...