Movements and Debates

Focusing solely on domestic issues within the United States.

Establishing connections and collaborations across national borders, particularly between African Americans and Africans.

Prioritizing economic development over political activism.

Promoting cultural exchange programs without political objectives.

The Civil Rights Movement focused on self-determination, while the Black Power Movement focused on legal equality.

The Civil Rights Movement focused on political and economic empowerment, while the Black Power Movement focused on ending segregation.

The Civil Rights Movement focused on legal equality and ending segregation, while the Black Power Movement emphasized self-determination, political and economic empowerment, and cultural identity.

Both movements had identical goals and strategies.

It isolated the movement by creating divisions among activists.

It fostered a sense of shared struggle and encouraged collaboration among people of African descent worldwide.

It limited the movement's focus to domestic issues within the United States.

It led to the abandonment of political activism in favor of cultural exchange programs.

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

James Baldwin

Barack Obama

To seek business opportunities and establish trade agreements.

To escape racial discrimination and seek political asylum.

To promote tourism and cultural exchange programs.

To express diasporic solidarity and support decolonization efforts.

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To negotiate trade agreements with the Cuban government.

To promote Cuba as a tourist destination for African Americans.

To seek political asylum and escape persecution in the United States.

To provide military support to the Cuban Revolution.

The revolution led to increased racial segregation and discrimination.

Fidel Castro promised to end racial discrimination.

The revolution had no impact on racial equality.

The revolution resulted in the mass emigration of African Americans from Cuba.

It was primarily focused on legal changes within the United States.

It involved connections and collaborations between African Americans and Africans worldwide.

It was limited to the Civil Rights Movement in the South.

It promoted segregation and separation of races.

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

Martin Luther King Jr.

Frederick Douglass