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1 New Successes and Challenges

2 Next Goal: Push for Voting Rights; Issue
Next Goal: Push for Voting Rights; Issue?; How many African Americans registered to vote in 1964? SNCC; Freedom Summer ; ALSO formed MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party); 3 volunteers missing; Marching on Selma, Alabama (1965); Bloody Sunday Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Literacy Tests); 24th Amendment (Poll Tax)

3 Voting Rights  Racial Violence/ Riots; Los Angeles, Detroit, New Jersey Kerner Commission; National Advisory Commission  Cause for Riots; Racial Discrimination  federal programs ghettos

4 New Voices for African Americans; Radical; Malcom X; killed Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power”; economic and political muscle Huey Newton & Bobby Seale; Black Panthers

5 Martin Luther King’s Final Days; Disagreed with Black Panthers; Poor People’s Campaign April 4, 1968; Shot by James Earl Ray; Bobby Kennedy gave news  riots break out Turning point; advancements; segregation, voting rights, poverty, fair housing Thurgood Marshall; Chief Justice Controversial issues remain; affirmative action


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