Agency is the ability of individuals to act independently and to make their own decisions. The social structure is a manner dictated for a person in which they must abide by to act. The Black Panther Party is an example of how individuals acted independently to arm themselves against the police. Structure would have been for them to report bad behavior or mistreatment to their local police depart but they decided that a corrupt system would not fix itself therefore they used their agency to take their problems into their own hands. The social structure of america changed as more Black leaders performed acts of agency. Some aspect where done structurally, but most of the core historical marches, boycotts, and actions where examples of failed