African Americans should use economic and political power to gain equality. -NovaNET
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The black power movement began demanding equal rights for African Americans. As with any group in those times, there were extremists.
People are the source of all government power.
The Constitution names the powers of the Federal government. If a power is not specifically named as being Federal, they do not have it. That power is kept by the states.
When the USA was formed, it was the southern states which had the power and as such, much of what they wanted at the time they got. The agrarian south depended on slave labor so slavery wasn't abolished at the time. So slave power could either mean the political power of the South or the slaves they had doing their labor. A power shift wouldn't occur until the 1820's with the advent of industrialization.
When all the power is vested in the centrel government