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Black nationalism: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1960 - 1975
Location United States
Context American civil rights movement • Universal Negro Improvement Association • assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Marcus Garvey at a session of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Stokely Carmichael
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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American sociologist, historian, and activist
Malcolm X in 1965, wearing glasses and a suit, with his hand raised to his face as he speaks.
Malcolm X
American activist and Black nationalist leader
Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan
American religious leader
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John Oliver Killens
American writer and activist
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
American musician and historian
Marcus Garvey in 1922 wearing a decorated military-style uniform and a plumed hat with large feathers.
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican Black nationalist leader
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Martin Delany
American physician and abolitionist
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael
West-Indian-born civil rights activist
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Warith Deen Mohammed
American religious leader