![]() ![]() Most historians consider 1968 the apex of the Global 1960s movements when power relations and social movements for justice erupted in intense conflict. It was a critical time in which relations within the global Pan-African world shifted, and out of necessity radicalized. ![]() the Poor People's Campaign, and the Olympics Black Power salute which followed thereafter. It comprised the primary year of the shift from the Civil Rights to Black Power movements and Black Consciousness the emergence of Black and Ethnic Studies programs the “Rodney Riots” in Jamaica innumerable assassinations, uprisings, and student movements globally open social conflicts as seen in the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that year the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 was a truly momentous year in the history of global social movements, a year of global revolution. ![]()
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