The Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movement The Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movements of the 50s and 60s spawned several organizations that reflected various social moods and attitudes. Though all of the organizations/movements outlined in this paper shared the common goal of racial equa...

"Total liberty for black people or total destruction for America." The Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland, California in 1966, was an African American revolutionary group that took a violent approach to fighting for civil rights. Its founders, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, based the party on the...