Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel comics character. Most
characters in the film are Black. The film is produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; it is the 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Black Panther political party of the 1960s:
Black Panther is also the name of a political Party made up of African Americans in 1996. Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, two college students from Oakland, California, created the Black Panther party in October 1996 as a black power political organization. The organization's original goal was to patrol black neighbourhood's and shield locals from police brutality. However, over time, it changed its focus and became a Marxist organization that demanded things like arming all African Americans, freeing all black inmates, and compensating African Americans for centuries of exploitation. Black empowerment was significantly impacted by the Black Panthers' campaign, and contemporary social movements like Black Lives Matter now bear the scars of this movement. The FBI attempted to destroy the Black Panther Party because it saw them as an enemy of the US government.
Colonization of Africa and the slave trade:
The slave trade was a significant part in the mistreatment of African Americans. Throughout
history, people of colour have been fighting for their rights by protesting and other events such as Bus Boycott’s, the civil right act and freedom rides. Prior to the 1800s, the European powers, including Britain, limited their aspirations for colonialism in Africa to isolated coastal settlements where they could maintain their control over trade and military affairs. Slave trade was the main focus of British activities on the coast of West Africa. Up to three million individuals were transported into slavery in the Americas by British ships between 1562 and 1807, the year the slave trade was outlawed. Over 11 million West Africans were enslaved by European ships, and while the population of Africa's west coast was collapsed, European traders profited from the proceeds.
20th Century civil rights movement:
Black Americans fought for social justice during the civil rights movement, which mostly took place in the 1950s and 1960s, in order to obtain equal legal protection under the US Constitution. Although slavery was formally outlawed during the Civil War, Black people continued to face prejudice and its terrible effects, particularly in the South. Black Americans and many other Americans gathered at the middle of the 20th century to start a two-decade long, historic campaign for equality. One of the most significant Bus Boycotts was the story of a women named Rosa Parks. She was sat on the bus on day and was sat on the bus. A white person got on the bus and there were no other seats. Rosa Parks was asked to get up and give her seat to the white person. She refused and was arrested for her refusal. When the federal ruling Browder v. Gayle took effect, and took it to the United States Supreme Court, leading them to make the law to let all people of any race sit on the bus.
From 1955 until his assassination in 1968, American Baptist priest, activist, and political philosopher Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was one of the most well-known figures in the civil rights movement. Through nonviolence and civil disobedience, King—a Black church leader and the son of pioneering civil rights activist and preacher Martin Luther King Sr.—advanced civil rights for people of colour in the US.
Segregation, labour rights, voting rights, and other civil rights marches were led and participated in by King.(Source: ) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) named him its first president after he led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. He oversaw the failed Rome Movement in Albany, Georgia, while serving as president of the SCLC. He also assisted in planning a few of the peaceful demonstrations that took place in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Following his "I Have a Dream" address on the steps of the Abraham Memorial, King was one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington. With the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the civil rights movement successfully pushed through important legislation.