Civil Rights in the 1960s §Freedom Riders, Ol’ Miss, and Birmingham §The March on Washington §LBJ and Civil Rights §Legislating Civil Rights: §Black Power §Nixon and Civil Rights: The Triumph of Conservatism
Freedom Rides 1961
After fire-bombing
Federal troops guarding the riders
James Meredith and The University of Mississippi
Birmingham
The March on Washington 1963
Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights
§Civil Rights Act of 1964: Outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants and public accommodations.
Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights §Civil Rights Act of 1964: Outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants and public accommodations. §24th Amendment: outlawed poll taxes in federal elections.
Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights §Civil Rights Act of 1964: Outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants and public accommodations. §24th Amendment: outlawed poll taxes in federal elections. §Voting Rights Act of 1965: outlawed literacy tests, removed obstacles to voter registration, and sent federal inspectors into South to make sure states complied.
Black Power §Urban Race Riots:
Black Power §Urban Race Riots: §Stokely Charmichael and SNCC: 1966
Black Power §Urban Race Riots: §Stokely Charmichael and SNCC: 1966 §H. Rap Brown and SNCC: 1967
Black Power §Urban Race Riots: §Stokely Charmichael and SNCC: 1966 §H. Rap Brown and SNCC: 1967 §Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and the Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party
Malcolm X
April Memphis
Richard Nixon and Civil Rights