While Williams, Joseph, and other Black Power scholars have identified various progenitors that greatly informed the activism that emerged in the mid-1960s, we need to keep in mind that the diverse group of activists and artists that emerged under the umbrella of Black Power interpreted and used these ideological and practical insights often in radically different ways. Informed by various local circumstances and needs, Black Power activism, just like the decades of black power organizing efforts that preceded it, took on various and at times even conflicting …show more content…
Hamilton, the media continued to accuse him of the failure to properly define the term. Only days following his first public cry for “Black Power,” CBS reporters cross-examined Carmichael after having broadcasted a short piece on SNCC’s organizing efforts in Lowndes County, Alabama that had culminated in the foundation of an independent party in that county. While the two reporters addressed Carmichael in a critical but paternalistic manner were largely unmoved by his answers, they pressed him hard on one particular aspect–his stance on the question of