✊🏿ap african american studies review

Black Power movement

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

A social and political movement in the 1960s and 1970s that emphasized Black self-determination, cultural pride, and institutional autonomy, emerging as a more militant alternative to nonviolent Civil Rights activism.

AP course connection

Topic 1.1: 1.1 What Is African American Studies?

Unit 1