Yale historian Jonathan Holloway examines the Black Power movement of the 1960s in this lecture from his course American History: From Emancipation to the Present. He traces the shift from the civil rights era through James Meredith's March Against Fear and Stokely Carmichael's rise, then turns to the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, tracking its formation, its community welfare programs, and its ties to anticolonial movements abroad. Holloway argues that the image of Black Power as hyper-masculine and dangerous, an image both imposed by white America and cultivated by black radicals themselves, has obscured the substantive organizing work these groups did. The lecture's second half follows the Panthers' decline in popularity and asks what got lost when the aesthetic overtook the record. Chapter markers separate the introduction, the Meredith march, the Panthers' formation, and their fall from favor.