1. Aim #85: How do the goals, philosophies and strategies differ amongst civil rights leaders and groups? Do now! Read the 3 excerpts and answer the accompanying questions (only do questions 1,2,6) https://youtu.be/FR3ChDXCv0I

2. (I) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s a.Grassroots movements kept up pressure for change b.Freedom Riders try to end segregation in bus facilities c.JFK sent troops to allow James Meredith to register at University of Miss. d.(1963) MLK writes ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail” 1.Also March on Washington: “I Have a Dream Speech” e. (1964) Civil Rights Act: segregation illegal in all public facilities and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that banned discrimination in employment https://youtu.be/3vDWWy4CMh E

3. (II) Civil Rights: the Right to Vote a.24 th amendment: outlawed poll taxes b.(1964) Freedom Summer: voter registration drive in Miss. c.(1965) March from Selma to Montgomery to advocate for voting rights stopped by violence 1.LBJ sends in federal troops to protect the nonviolent marchers d. (1965) Voting Rights Act: ended efforts to prevent blacks from voting in the south (i.e. literacy tests banned) https://youtu.be/N3E7atni5 dg https://youtu.be/gM-tfj6lp6w

4. (III) Civil Rights Movement Radicalizes a.(1965) Watts Riots: over arrest of a black motorist by white police officer b.Malcolm X emphasized: 1.Black nationalism 2.Self-improvement 3.Separatism c. Stokely Carmichael called for “black power” African Americans should collectively use their economic and political muscle to gain equality 1.Leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) d. Black Panthers: Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

6. Significant Gains Eliminated legal or de jure segregation Knocked down barriers of voting and political participation for African Americans Poverty rates fell Increase in the number of African Americans high school graduates Appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first African American Supreme Court Justice in 1967 Fair Housing Act

7. Exit Ticket: Separate Sheet of paper Evaluate the extent to which the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s maintained continuity as well as fostered change from the activism of Radical Reconstruction.