During the Civil War (1861 – 1865), both the Union and the Confederacy organized their economies and civilizations to wage the war even though facing significant home front opposition. Even though Confederate leadership presented initiative and bold initial in the war, the Union eventually prospered due to better military leadership, more real strategies, key conquests, greater capitals, and the war annihilation of the South's setting and structure.
It brought people out of rural farm lands and into cities to work in factories. People worked in a factory now and hours.
Stokely Carmichael was the first to popularly use the term "Black Power". Carmichael said it at a speech in 1966 and stated that Black Power needs to be used as a slogan and term of solidarity between African Americans. For him and Thelwell, Africans need to reclaim their past and identity from white oppressors who through systematic slavery and oppression, robbed Africans of their freedom and progress. The assertion of a black identity was needed because being united together strengthens ties and the message for liberation.
