Civil rights movement

=== Foreign reactions ===

==== China ====
In China, [[Mao Zedong]] in August 1963 expressed support for the U.S. civil rights movement, stating that the "fascist atrocities" committed against black people in the U.S. demonstrated the link between reactionary domestic U.S. policies and its policies of aggression abroad.<ref name=":Minami">{{Cite book |last=Minami |first=Kazushi |title=People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War |date=2024 |publisher=[[Cornell University Press]] |isbn=9781501774157 |location=Ithaca, NY}}</ref>{{Rp|page=34}} Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Mao stated that racial discrimination in the U.S. resulted from its colonial system and that the struggle of Black people in the U.S. was an [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] struggle.<ref name=":Minami" />{{Rp|page=34}} 

[[Maoism]] influenced some components of the Black liberation movement, including the Black Panther Party and black self-defense advocate [[Robert F. Williams]].<ref name=":Minami" />{{Rp|page=34}}