Black Lives Matter (2013) and the Civil Rights Movement (1960s) in the United States of America: A Same Story with a different name and Strategies

Diome Faye

Vol-8,Issue-1,January - February 2023

Author: Diome Faye

Keywords: Civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter Movement, leadership, ICTs, race

Abstract: The article examines with a fine-tooth comb the evolution of the civil rights movements of African Americans by making a comparative study between the civil rights movement of the sixties and the Black Lives Matter Movement in 2013. After the great hopes raised by Barack Obama's election in 2008, the series of savage and often unpunished killings of young African Americans between 2012-2020 sparked the ire of the black community gathered around the Black Lives Matter Movement. Although the ideological foundations of both movements remain the valorization of black lives in all areas of daily life in the United States, the Black Lives Matter Movement (2013) and the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s did not embrace the same strategies of struggle and the same leadership. From the centralization of leadership of the sixties, the decentralization of leadership in the Black Lives Matter Movement has been more efficient and practical. The use of new information and communication technologies by the Black Lives Matter Movement has significantly contributed to the visibility and massification of the movement in the United States and around the world.

Article Info: Received: 18 Jan 2023; Received in revised form: 15 Feb 2023; Accepted: 22 Feb 2023; Available online: 28 Feb 2023

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.81.33