Black Power/Racial Battlegrounds

Black Power is a term coined in 1966 by Stokely Carmichael to encourage the uniting of Black Americans behind the ideas of racial solidarity and political action in their fight for equality. The Black Power movement resulted in the founding of numerous organizations, such as the Black Panther Party, which developed into the militant wing of the Civil Rights movement. They were instrumental in the uprisings in the cities of Detroit, Newark, and Los Angeles during the late 1960s.

Fires burning on July 24, 1967, during the uprising of African Americans in Detroit (top); National Guardsmen in an armored vehicle on the streets of Detroit during the uprising (middle); an African American man standing in the doorway of a burned building in Detroit on July 27, 1967 (bottom).