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 * __Black Power__**

1965, many African Americans, especially urban youth people, began to turn away from King. Some leaders called for more aggressive forms of protest. their strategies ranged from armed self-defense to promoting the idea that the government should set aside a number of states where African Americans could live separate from whites. As African Americans became more assertive, some organizations, including CORE and SNCC, voted to expel all whites from leadership positions in their organizations. They believed that African Americans shuld lead their own struggle.

Many African Americans called for Black Power. A few interpreted black power to mean that physical self-defense and even violence were acceptable-- a clear rejection of Dr. King's philosophy. To most, including Stokely Carmichael, the leader of SNCC in 1966, the term meant that African Americans should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle.