What did 'Black Power' mean to poor African Americans?

Lucy Davis, a sharecropper’s wife, explains the impact Stokely Carmichael’s message of ‘Black Power’ had on African American communities in Lowndes County, Alabama.

24 July 2012

1 minute

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