In 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. identified Chicago—not any southern location—as the American city most hateful toward Black people. "I've been in many demonstrations all across the South,...

"I am 65 years old, I own 100 acres of land that is paid for, I am a taxpayer and I have six children. All of them is teachin', workin' [...] If what I done ain't enough to be a registered voter wi...

U.S. population in 1970: 203,211,926 Black population in 1970: 22,580,289 (11%) Estimated Number of Blacks Registered to Vote Mississippi (1960): 22,000Mississippi (1966): 175,000Alabama (1960): 6...

Ku Klux Klan Black Panther Party (or Black Panther Party for Self Defense) Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Nation of Islam National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Stud...

Affirmative Action Black Power This is a term originally coined coined by SNCC chairman Stokely Carmichael in a speech delivered in June 1966 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and later popularized by mil...