Definition of black power in English English dictionary
A movement among Black Americans emphasizing racial pride and social equality through the creation of Black political and cultural institutions: "Black Power... calls for black people to consolidate behind their own, so that they can bargain from a position of strength" (Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton)
A rallying cry for more militant blacks advocated by younger leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H Rap Brown, beginning in the mid‑1960s It called for African Americans to form their own economic, political, and cultural institutions
A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s which supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions (p 301)
{i} movement formed by American blacks to produce social equality and equal rights and emphasize racial pride