Floyd McKissick, the National Director of CORE, known as the Congress of Racial Equality, called for the use of Black Americans over negroes. He and other civil rights leaders also began using "Black Power" as a meaning and message during the movement in 1966. But there were differences in how each person spoke of the term.
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