Surely, this most tumultuous of recent decades, the 1960s, will also bear an historical tag, and it is quite probable that its name was born at that historic moment when a young Negro militant by the name of Stokely Carmichael, crying out in anger and frustration, started a chant whose reverberations have shaken America: the chant of 'Black Power.' All of these labels have caused historians a great deal of difficulty, even though the historians themselves have done much to perpetuate them at the same time they were trying to explain them.

And so, the periods limp or strut across the stage of our history, bearing with propriety or incongruity, as the case may be, such labels as the Gilded Age for the 1880s and '90s, the Progressive Age for the first decade of the 20th century, the Lost Generation for the 1920s, and the Beat Generation for the 1950s. Speaker 2: As Americans, we seem to be peculiarly addicted to slogans and labels, not only to advertise ourselves and our products, but to memorialize the historical decades as well. This address was delivered April 30, 1968, at Grinnell College during the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor Hamilton was co-author with Stokely Carmichael of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. Today's program is an address entitled Black Power: A Viable Alternative by Charles Hamilton, Professor of Political Science at Roosevelt University. These programs are presented as background material for the course Afro-American Literature. Speaker 1: The Broadcasting Service of the University of Iowa, in cooperation with the Department of English and the Afro-American Studies Program at the University, presents a series of programs on Afro-American Culture.

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