In Stokely Carmichael's speech, Black Power, he repeated a question to the audience over and over again. He asked them, "how can black people inside of this country move?' He asked them instead of just stating his opinion because he wanted the audience to come to the same conclusion as him, but on their own. This is a more effective way of arguing a point because the other person does not feel like they were tricked into believing something, since they reasoned it out themselves. However, he hinted at the answer throughout his speech to make sure that everyone was heading towards the same conclusion. 

In the end he never fully elaborated on the answer to his question but, after researching Carmichael's speech, it was obvious that he believed that the Black Panther Party was the solution to America's race issue. This is shown through the way that researching the Black Panther Party makes them seem like an effective civil rights movement, because they were the only movement making the type of progress that actually advanced an African American's civil rights. Also, their agenda lined up with Carmichael's beliefs, specifically his idea of allowing African Americans to fight back in self-defense. This is demonstrated through the way that the Black Panther Party dealt with issues by making patrols that followed police patrols, fighting for rights without being as violent as portrayed by the news media, and by making a platform that Carmichael would agree with. The reason that Carmichael would agree with and talk about the platforms of the Black Panther Party is because he was a member and wanted to convince people that they were the way to having the rights of African Americans recognized. 

In Jo-Ann Morgan's journal, Huey P. Newton Enthroned, she goes in depth describing the Black Panther Party's achievements and goals. She started off her journal by describing the creation of the first office of the Black Panther Party. When police patrols armed with submachine guns were trying to control the African American population in West and North Oakland, there were multiple occasions when police brutality took place, but nothing was done. In response to this, the Black Panther Party created their first office as a way to "defend their community from the police" by following police cars on patrols and making sure that no abuse took place (Morgan 130). This is an issue that Carmichael spoke about in his speech, stating how he believed that, "the needs of Oakland, California, is not 1,000 policemen with submachine guns". He felt firmly that African Americans have the right to fight back when put into a corner, and that is exactly what the Black Panther Party believed too. This is just one example for how researching the Black Panther Party was able to give a better understanding and interpretation of Carmichael's speech by showing how he believed that the Black Panther Party was going to be able to get real results from the civil rights movement. 

Another way that the Black Panther Party was supporting Carmichael's views was through their ten-point platform, which represented their wants and beliefs. Examples of these points are full employment, education, and "an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of black people, other people of color, all oppressed people inside the United States". Another platform that Carmichael would have agreed with was their sixth one, which was about getting health care to African Americans and people who need it. Due to their commitment, "Black Panthers ... were serving free breakfasts to children, organizing clothes and food giveaways, and other platform-oriented projects" (Morgan 132). These platforms coincide almost exactly with Carmichael's speech, and this was done so that his speech could provide people a reason to stop viewing the Black Panther Party as the negative entity people usually believe it to be. This is important because people usually associate the Black Panther Party with needless violence, which then made getting support almost impossible. Therefore, Carmichael shows how much they can offer by describing how they are a solution to the problem of people not accepting that African Americans have civil rights.

Research also helped with the interpretation of the speech by showing how even though Carmichael was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he started to realize that nonviolent protest was not getting anywhere. This was shown in his speech when he said, "That is where nonviolence needs to be preached ...  not to black people. They have already been nonviolent too many years". The reason he had this shift was explained more in depth in Kalen Churcher's essay, Stokely Carmichael, "Black Power". She states that, "When James Meredith ...  was shot trying to prove that white violence was not to be feared, Carmichael came to the realization that perhaps violence was sometimes necessary" (Churcher). This shows a very likely turning point in Carmichael's view on the nonviolent aspect of the civil rights movement, where he started to realize that violence might be a necessary option. This is an important turning point because it started the idea that African Americans can resort to violence in forms of self-defense when needed. It also demonstrates the point in time when people started to question if practicing passive resistance was actually achieving anything. This then made it easier for people to believe in the black power movement, which is something that Carmichael used to his advantage in having people listen to his argument. 

Lastly, the essay by Churcher gave a detailed analysis of Carmichael's speech, which allowed for a very in depth look at what Carmichael was saying. For example, she made a good point about why Carmichael would even give a speech at a predominately white class of students. She said, "While Carmichael made clear that the Black Power movement was to be an only African American movement, he still suggested that students might do their part to change the world for the better by advancing their own movement in their own communities". This is an idea that people might not notice when they first hear or read Carmichael's speech because, even though it is obvious that Carmichael wants white people to start a movement, he does not specify whether or not they can be involved in the Black Panther Party's movements during his speech. This is important because people would believe that Carmichael would want all the help he can get to fix the problem of racism in America, but instead he wants to separate white and black people. However, he does this because he believes that if African Americans have to rely on help from white people, then they will always be considered less than them. 

To wrap things up, researching Stokely Carmichael's speech gave a better insight into the message he was trying to convey. He intended for his speech to help the black power movement, which was headed by the Black Panther Party. To do this, he wanted to rid the Black Panther Party of the negative stereotype that they were given by the media. To do this, he tried to show people how they were the way to having people respect African American's civil rights. He did this by showing how the idea of passive resistance was becoming more ineffective, and the only option left was violence. He then made sure to clarify that the only time violence could be used was in self-defense, that way the media could not put as much of a negative spin on the black power movement's efforts.

