Black Movements: Where Are They Now

A look at the big ideas that have brought Blacks together.

Universal Negro Improvement Association: Now - UNIA-ACL still operates today, although with significantly fewer members than in the 1920s. The group still advocates for the creation of a United States of Africa.  (Photo: WikiCommons)
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The Black Power Movement: Then - The Black Power Movement was a broad ideology that many different groups and organizations ascribed to. Picking up in the late-1960s, Black Power espoused Black self-determination, economic self-sufficiency and self love. (Photo: Harper Collins)The Black Power Movement: Then - The Black Power Movement began to wane in the late 1970s as groups such as the Black Panther Party began to disband and key members were killed, imprisoned or began to follow different ideologies.  (Photo: John Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

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Civil Rights Movement: Then - Perhaps the most well-known of all Black movements, the Civil Rights Movement was a broad cause involving several organizations that sought to eliminate racial discrimination against Blacks in America and to secure voting rights. (Photo: William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)

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