The Civil Rights Movement II: Black Power Reform, Revolt and Reaction Lecture Twelve: Term 2 Week 4
John Lewis (SNCC) at the March on Washington (1963)
Freedom Summer (Mississippi, 1964)
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Democratic Convention
“Bloody Sunday” (Selma, AL, 1965)
Watts (11 August 1965) 50-80,000 people 34 dead, 900 injured 4,000 arrested $35m damage
Detroit, 1967
Martin Luther King in Chicago (1966)
The Poor People’s Campaign
4 April 1968
“Resurrection City”
The Nation of Islam
Malcolm X and Black Nationalism
Stokely Carmichael and the Lowndes County Freedom Organization
The ‘March Against Fear’ (June 1966)
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (estd. 1966)
H. Rap Brown “Violence is necessary and it’s as American as apple pie.”
Mexico Olympics, 1968
Key Questions to Consider When did the Civil Rights Movement emerge? Why did it become a mass movement after WWII? Which was more important, the leadership or the grassroots of the movement? Why did King’s tactics have less success in the North than in the South? How did whites respond to the movement? Why did the call for “Black Power” come in the mid- 1960s? What did it mean? Did black nationalism help or hinder the mainstream movement?