[EastCoastAmerican]

So I've been reading books about the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and I read that the "White Power" slogan was created as a counter-point to the "Black Power" slogan.

Does anyone here know the phrase's origins?

I'm not certain, but I think that it was either George Lincoln Rockwell or William H. Pierce that first said the term.

[Thane]

As a young East coast New englander not enough pressure has ever been on the civil rights movement growing up, unable to answer your question I have to ask. Are you talking about the klan meetings of controling the southern government countering the panther black is beautiful concept. Or am i completely off base?

[EastCoastAmerican]

As a young East coast New englander not enough pressure has ever been on the civil rights movement growing up, unable to answer your question I have to ask. Are you talking about the klan meetings of controling the southern government countering the panther black is beautiful concept. Or am i completely off base?

Yes; the "White Power" slogan was created as a counterpoint to the efforts of black nationalist groups. The thinking was "If they're proud to be black, then we're proud to be white!"

I'm heavily inclined to believe that George Lincoln Rockwell was the guy who popularized the phrase, but I'm not sure.