black power

Meanings

1. Alternative letter-case form of Black Power.

1. A slogan and movement supporting Black self-determination and sometimes separatism, especially in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.

Etymology

From Richard Wright's book Black Power (1954), describing his travels to the Gold Coast and the rise of Pan-Africanism. In a US context later popularized by Stokely Carmichael.