During the mid- to late-1960s, the main slogans of the African American social justice movements were “freedom now” and “Black Power.”  It was recognized that both political power and economic power were required to attain greater freedom and empowerment in the United States. As civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael put it in the 1966 pamphlet More

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