Political systems

Political systems

The organisation and interaction of the members that make up the governing power of a social community or state.

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black

Political systems; Slavery

Often used in Britain to describe people of African and Caribbean (and sometimes Asian) origin.

black British

Political systems; Slavery

Used during the 1980s to stress the political unity between African, Caribbean, and South Asian people in Britain. Now mainly used to refer to British descendants of first ...

Black Codes

Political systems; Slavery

Laws passed by southern legislatures to control freed blacks during the Reconstruction Era. The codes included severe punishments for vagrancy directed against freedmen who ...

Black Muslims

Political systems; Slavery

Members of an Islamic black nationalist and black separatist organization which began in the 1930's. Their most famous member, Malcolm X, broke with the organization in 1963 and ...

Black Panther Party

Political systems; Slavery

This organization, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, advocated violence as the only way to achieve black power in a country dominated by ...

Black Power

Political systems; Slavery

A militant movement which advocated separate social, economic, and political institutions for blacks. Advocates of the movement expressed pride in their African heritage and their ...