Abstract
The movements that made the men, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, (who, in fact, remade The Black Power and Civil Rights Movements), were the contexts in which we find the emergence of the theological/religious discipline of: Black Theology. This represented the empowerment ofAfrican-American peoples in the arena of theology/religion. Black theologians, utilizing the Black Power/Civil Rights Movements as one of the sources for doing theology, and interpreting religion, began challenging many of the assumptions and presuppositions of people of the dominant culture as they forged ahead towards constructive Black religious thought or Black theology.