#movementpeople

[movementpeoples]

[movementpeoples]

[movementpeoples]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a famous Nigerian author. Americanah is one of her most popular novels and it speaks about the experience of a young Nigerian woman in America attending a university, a nod to the Diaspora. 

[movementpeoples]

Picket lines, School boy cots, They try to say it's a communist plot, All I want is equality, For my sister my brother my people and me

Nina Simone,  "Mississippi Goddam”

Nina Simone was a big influence during the civil rights movement so much so that the song quoted above became the anthem for the civil rights movement.

[movementpeoples]

“As for leaders, Fannie Lou Hamer joined Ella Baker as one of the most electrifying, male or female...” (196 Gomez)

[movementpeoples]

The Erasure of Women

“The history of the civil rights movement is often written with an emphasis on leaders, especially men. But the movement was borne by the labor of women who coked and sold chicken dinners, answered the phones, ran the endless errands, cleaned up after the meetings, and were still able to march in the streets as well as help plan strategy.” (196 Gomez)

[movementpeoples]

"Movement has long been a principal characteristic of the African Diaspora"

Michael Gomez, ‘Movement People’

[movementpeoples]

“Movement People”

Michael Gomez discusses how the period of 1945-1968 was a time in which black people strived to not only reverse the negative narrative but also highlighted the persistence for their citizenship across the Diaspora.

[movementpeoples]

Pan-Africanism

Organization of black leaders whose agenda involved the encouraging and strengthening of the bond of all people of African descent across the Diaspora

[movementpeoples]

Topic:

Liberation Movements and Anti-Colonial Struggles

[movementpeoples]

Music during this time reflected the great changes that were going on in America and often showed support for various black movements through their lyrics. 

[movementpeoples]

Lack of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century?