Greater New Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church SAY IT LOUD, Im BLACK AND Im PROUD The sweeping migration of black families out of the South during World War II transformed Oakland and cities throughout the West and the North. A new generation of young blacks growing up in these cities faced new conditions, new forms of poverty and racism unfamiliar to their parents, and sought to develop new forms of politics to address them. Black Panther Party membership consisted of recent migrants whose families traveled north and west to escape the southern racial regime, only to be confronted with new forms of segregation and repression. In the early 1960s, the insurgent Civil Rights Movement had dismantled the Jim Crow system of racial caste subordination using the tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience, and demanding full citizenship rights for black people. But not much changed in the cities of the North and West. As the wartime jobs which drew much of the black migration fled to the suburbs along with white residents, the black population was concentrated in poor urban ghettos with high unemployment, and substandard housing, mostly excluded from political representation, top universities, and the middle class. Police departments were almost all white in 1966, only 16 of Oaklands 661 police officers were African American. Rev. Clifford H. McKinney, Sr., Servant/Teacher 890 S.W. 4TH Street - Homestead, FL 33030 PHONES: Church (786) 601-9406 - Pastors Cell: (786) 525-4969 DIRECTIONS: “Turnpike South to Campbell Drive – Turn Left On Campbell Drive – Come To 6 Avenue AND Turn Left – Go To “4th Street S.W. - MLK” and Turn Right - Church Is Two Blocks Up On Left. “U.S. I South” To Campbell Drive – Turn Right On Campbell Drive - Come To 6 Avenue AND Turn Left – Go To “4th Street S.W.” and Turn Right- Church Is Two Blocks Up On Left.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:40:00 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015