Black Power in the Caribbean Black Power in the Caribbean Black Power in the Caribbean refers to political and social movements in the Caribbean region from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s that focused on overturning the existing racist power structure. Guyanese academic Walter Rodney famously defined the movement as follows: “Black Power in the West Indies means three closely related things”: The Black Power movement in Jamaica developed in the 1960s. Major figures in the movement include Walter Rodney and the Abeng group. The Black Power movement in Trinidad & Tobago emerged in the late-1960s and came to a head with the Black Power Revolution in
Mexican Movement of 1968 to move the Games to Los Angeles if the situation deteriorated. Protests took place throughout 1968, and were often violently stopped by police. The Silence March was a silent demonstration that took place on September 13, meant to prove that the movement was not a series of riots but had discipline and self-control. From July to September 1968, student movements started to arise and become stronger, to the point that the government began aggressively intervening. On October 2, 1968, at 5 PM in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, a neighborhood of Mexico City, almost 10 thousand men,