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New Successes and Challenges
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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)
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Voting Rights Racial Violence/ Riots; Los Angeles, Detroit, New Jersey Kerner Commission; National Advisory Commission Cause for Riots; Racial Discrimination federal programs ghettos
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New Voices for African Americans; Radical; Malcom X; killed Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power”; economic and political muscle Huey Newton & Bobby Seale; Black Panthers
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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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