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June 6th, Meredith was shot in the back by a white man with a shotgun .
Taken to the hospital, major civil rights leaders pledge to continue the
march . During the march, an ideological split occurred between Dr . King
and SNCC and CORE . At a rally, Stokely began to shout, "We want Black
Power," and the audience began chanting Black Power . Soon the Black
Power movement was born nation-wide .
Stokely Carmichael became, for while, the new black mass spokesman .
Resulting from his efforts in
Loundes County, Alabama to build an all
black political party, the Black Panther Party formed in northern areas .
In the early part of 1966, it was decided that many of the black
revolutionaries across-the country who were engaging in armed struggle
were isolated and needed a public organization from which to operate
legally .
When the shift towards Black Power occurred in SNCC, RAM decided to
develop a public mass black political party . RAM began having a series
of meetings with local
nationalist organizers in Harlem, along with Harlem
representatives of SNCC . These meeting, which were a coalition of activists,
decided to set up an independent black political party which would
be a
northern support apparatus of the Loundes County Freedom Organization,
whose symbol was the black panther . It was decided to call the
party the Black Panther Party .
Stanford wrote Carmichael asking if it
was alright to use the name Black Panther . Through the New York SNCC
office the word came back, "Ok, go ahead ." Queen Mother Audley Moore on
July 13, 1966,
began organizing weekly Black Nationalist Action Forums at
the YMCA in Harlem .
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Panther Party .
These meetings were recruiting sessions for the Black
1OR iots, Civil and Criminal Disorders . (Washington, D .C . : U .S . Government
Printing Office, 1969), p . 4237 .