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Civil rights and black power activists in the 1960s typically sought to raise the consciousness of white and black Americans, respectively, regarding the debilitating and oppressive exigencies of mid-twentieth-century African American life. Said differently, the CRM to primarily affect the moral conscious of white America to advance African Americans—or white suasion—gave way to black suasion to develop the moral, cultural, and political consciousness of African Americans toward the necessity of black unity, power, and agency through the Black Power Movement (BPM). Guided by the leading youth organization, SNCC, black students started hastily leaving civil rights in the mid-1960s, entering the ideological orbit of black power. In effect, the failures (and successes) of the CRM prepared the stage for the BPM, and its arm in academia, the BCM.
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Kendi, I.X. (2012). “March That Won’t Turn Around”: Formation and Development of the Black Campus Movement. In: The Black Campus Movement. Contemporary Black History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016508_5
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