Black Power, a movement most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s among Black people throughout the world, especially those in the United States, emphasizes racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests, advance black values, and secure black autonomy.New York politician Adam Clayton Powell uses the term on May 29, 1966 during a baccalaureate address at the Howard University: "To demand these God-given rights is to seek black power."

The first official use of the term "Black Power" as a social and political slogan is by Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks), both organizers and spokespersons for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

On June 16, 1966, after the shooting of James Meredith during the March Against Fear, Stokely Carmichael says: "This is the twenty-seventh time I have been arrested and I ain't going to jail no more!

The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over.

What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!

"Some, though not all, Black Power adherents believe in racial separation, black nationalism, and the necessity to use violence as a means of achieving their aims.

Such positions are for the most part in direct conflict with those of leaders of the mainstream Civil Rights Movement, and thus the two movements are often been viewed as inherently antagonistic.

However certain groups and individuals participate in both civil rights and black power activism.Internationalist offshoots of black power include African Internationalism, pan-Africanism, black nationalism and black supremacy.