This video is a bit of an introduction of how the British Black Power movement came about and why the British civil rights movement eventually met its downfall. With influences from Malcolm X and Kwame Ture, who both visited Britain, the racialised working-class looked elsewhere, searching beyond equality.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
2:00 Context of 1960s Britain
2:19 No Words
2:23 Malcolm X Visits Smethwick, Birmingham
6:50 Obi Egbuna
7:53 Kwame Ture
8:41 Overview
9:11 Outro
Songs used: Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie (Instrumental)
The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (Instrumental)
Further reading:
'The Day Malcolm X Came to Smethwick'
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'Stokely Carmichael speaking at the Dialectics of Liberation, 1967'
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'Revealed: how UK targeted American civil rights leader in covert campaign'
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'BRITISH BLACK PANTHER PARTY (1968-1973)'
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'Britain’s most racist election: the story of Smethwick, 50 years on'
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'Malcolm and the Midlands'
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'Stokely Carmichael in London: The birth of the British Black Power Movement?'
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'Black Power – 2. Main groups'
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