# The Meredith March makes public the SNCC–SCLC split over Black Power and nonviolence as discipline Date: 1966 ## The fact During the June 1966 Meredith March Against Fear, SNCC’s Stokely Carmichael popularized “Black Power” on the road while King publicly defended nonviolence and coalition with white liberals. It is one event. ## Context Polarisation can clarify strategy and can thin a voting-rights coalition. [Martin Luther King Jr](/people/martin-luther-king-jr).’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Stokely Carmichael’s Greenwood slogan and King’s public dissent are both dated 1966. Shared rupture, not a solo speech. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row. ## Evidence and sources King Institute march files and contemporaneous independent reporting, including later Britannica synthesis, record the slogan clash on the Meredith March. Official or archival record: Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute (https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/; Stanford University). ## Significance A public split of the 1960s movement into rival slogans is a polarisation path with costs for a single legislative lobby. A slogan clash is not the Voting Rights Act. A public split of the 1960s movement into rival slogans is a polarisation path with costs for a single legislative lobby. ## What is established and what is not Established: 1966 made the SNCC–SCLC strategic split public on the Meredith March. Not established: that King caused Carmichael’s slogan, or a unique turnout series. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Martin Luther King Jr.. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes. ## People - Martin Luther King Jr.: https://factrail.ai/people/martin-luther-king-jr ## Drivers - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Luther-King-Jr - https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mlk-black-power-split