Two specific aims of the Black Power Chronicles (BPC) are:

1. Identify and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the call for Black Power on June 16, 1966, and thereby establish it as a significant historic event that deserves to be remembered and studied by people throughout the world;
2. Undertake a grassroots organizing campaign to uncover the stories and insights about the Black Power era (1966-1998) as told by Black Power veterans who worked in their communities to build new programs and institutions across the country.

BPC has spent the last five years collecting historic testimony and building an archive that will lift up the Black Power era from its historical obscurity, where the powers of the FBI and mainstream media attempted to keep its messages and lessons covered up under the ashes of white supremacy and institutional racism.

Over the past five years, with help from Black Power veterans, community activists, and our institutional collaborators, BPC has created new historical data from original narratives written specifically for this project. We have conducted oral histories; collected images, documents, and artifacts about the Black Power era; and produced public programs to tell the Black Power story. We believe that this story must be told “from the ground up” by those who were instrumental in building the political, educational, cultural, and economic programs that defined the Black Power era.

For more mission information visit blackpowerchronicles.org