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Article: We must return to Black power
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- Michigan Quarterly Review
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- March 25, 1995
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Conrad W. Worrill
Michigan Citizen
03-25-1995
We must return to Black power.
The Black Liberation Movement in America must return to the call for Black Power. It appears that far too many African Americans have forgotten that we are fighting and struggling for the acquisition of power. Specifically, Black Power!
We must not forget that the late great Congressman from Harlem, New York, Adam Clayton Powell, set the tone for the concept of Black Power in a speech he made to a church group in Chicago in 1965.
Powell said: "Victories were many in the Negro Revolt, but still no radical change occurred in America's social structure. Why? Because a revolt is only an interlude of social protest, a ...