The Civil Rights Movement Chapter 29
Laying the Groundwork 1950’s1950’s –Brown v. Board of Education –Montgomery Bus Boycott NAACP NAACP –W.E.B. Du Bois –Change through courts National Urban LeagueNational Urban League CORE – Congress of Racial EqualityCORE – Congress of Racial Equality –Nonviolent ; pacifists
The Philosophy of Nonviolence Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Martin Luther King, Jr. –Gandhi; nonviolent protest –Nobel Peace Prize, 1964 –Assassinated in Memphis in April of 1968 (James Earl Ray)
The Struggle Intensifies SNCC Breaks Away –Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Sit-Ins Challenge Segregation –“Badge of honor” The Freedom Rides –Anniston, Alabama –Robert Kennedy The Albany Movement Ole Miss –James Meredith –Governor Ross Barnett Birmingham –Attempt to integrate –King arrested –Nation watches
The Political Response Kennedy on Civil RightsKennedy on Civil Rights The March on WashingtonThe March on Washington –“I Have a Dream” Johnson on Civil RightsJohnson on Civil Rights –Cloture –The Civil Rights Act 1964 –Freedom Summer –The Democratic Convention –The Selma March –The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Challenge of Black Power James Baldwin Malcolm X –Nation of Islam –Black Nationalism The Black Power Movement –Stokely Carmichael –The Black Panthers –Riots Legacy of the Movement