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Black Power Conference of Newark, New Jersey  

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  • The 1967 Black Power Conference of Newark, New Jersey, established an unprecedented shift in blacks' ideas for and practices in their nonviolent struggle for civil rights. The name of the conference, the important slogan and mantra—black power—popularized by Stokely Carmichael (also known as Kwame Ture), exposed the weakness in protesting solely for integration. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; Black Power Conference of Newark, New Jersey]

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