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"We Don't Want Another Black Freedom Movement!" : An Inquiry into the desire for new social movements by comparing how people perceived both the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement versus the Black Lives Matter Movement

Hicks, Isaiah Deonte

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2020, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, History.
The Civil Rights Era of the 1960s has helped America transcend and grow above its racist past, at least that is what we have been led to believe. However, the past decade has made it all too clear that there is still a deep racial divide within America. Tragic events such as Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown’s death, and the details that surrounded them, were heavily polarized topics that made clear America’s racial divide. Those events also spawned a new movement, the Black Lives Matter Movement, which draws heavily from its predecessors of the past. Due to the current memory of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives Matter and its supporters, have and continue to fight an uphill battle against the national media, which has attempted to denounce the new movement and portray it as contrary to American values, much like they have portrayed groups associated with the Black Power Movement. This study explores how people perceived the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement and examines whether that has any relationship with how other movements such as the Black Lives Matter Movement are perceived. Although there is a vast amount of literature covering the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movements, individually and collectively, there is not a lot of work that examines them both as part of the continuous Black Freedom Movement. Due to popular memory of the Civil Rights Movement, new developing movements have been grossly distorted to ensure the failure and public denial of subsequent movements meant to validate the continuance and longevity of the Black Freedom Movement. This thesis will argue that Black Lives Matter is proof that the Black Freedom Movement is continuous, and is ongoing today. Catastrophic events such as Trayvon Martin’s and Michael Brown’s death acted as a rallying point for many Blacks to become involved in the new movement, much like Emmitt Till’s death acted as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
Tyler Moore (Advisor)
Thomas Edge (Committee Member)
169 p.

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  • Hicks, I. D. (2020). "We Don't Want Another Black Freedom Movement!" : An Inquiry into the desire for new social movements by comparing how people perceived both the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement versus the Black Lives Matter Movement [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1587123845884206

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hicks, Isaiah. "We Don't Want Another Black Freedom Movement!" : An Inquiry into the desire for new social movements by comparing how people perceived both the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement versus the Black Lives Matter Movement. 2020. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1587123845884206.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hicks, Isaiah. ""We Don't Want Another Black Freedom Movement!" : An Inquiry into the desire for new social movements by comparing how people perceived both the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement versus the Black Lives Matter Movement." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1587123845884206

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)