Black Power

Catalogue Reference:(MOL) 99.2

The front cover of the manifesto of the Universal Coloured People's Association which was formed in 1967 after the visit to Britian of Stokely Carmichael, a civil rights activist from the United States. Carmichael had first used the phrase 'Black Power' which became a focal issue for many within the civil rights movement. In the 1960s a number of organisations were set up, among them the Race Relations Board, aiming to safeguard and represent the rights of the Black community in Britain.