When looking back on the Sixties, one of the most dominating themes of that period was the Civil Rights Movement. The quest for civil rights had been started long ago, when the black man was freed from the bonds of slavery. Over a hundred years later, the problem of blacks being treated as second-class citizens still persisted. What could be done to correct the present situation? Some, both blacks and whites, believed that non-violence was …showed first 75 words of 2049 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2049 total…whites - there would have been a white Malcolm X and a white Stokely Carmichael. Both these men and their ideologies were products of the environment they had grown up in. It was a response to a society that kept down a particular race of people. There was only so much someone could take without making a stand for himself. "Black pride" and "black militancy" were the ways in which this stand could be manifested.