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1 The Civil Rights Movement, JFK, and LBJ
New Success and Challenges , , , , EQ: What success and challenges faced the civil rights movement after 1964?

2 Freedom Summer, 1964 SNCC sent thousands of volunteers into Miss. to register black voters 3 workers disappeared, they had been murdered Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman the movie Mississippi Burning is about them

3 Selma, AL 1965 marched in response to the shooting of a young man a court injunction denied them the right to gather near Selma state troopers stopped them at the Edmund Pettus Bridge 17 people were hospitalized a 2nd march was stopped but a 3rd escorted by federal troops made it in 1995, a 30th anniversary march included George Wallace who ordered the police to attack the marchers

4 Voting Rights Act, 1965 banned literacy tests
sent federal registrars to South federal oversight meant to make registration more fair

5 24th Amendment banned poll taxes
used to keep blacks and poor whites from voting

6 Watts Riot, 1965 despite legal victories, violence erupted in LA, Detroit, and New Jersey in LA, 31 blacks and 3 whites killed in a week of rioting that left injured and 4,000+ arrested $50 million in property damage in Detroit the Kerner Commission concluded that extreme poverty was the cause recommended federal money develop cities to relieve poverty

7 Malcolm X Malcolm Little joined the Nation of Islam and dropped his “slave name” advocated black separatism and militism became more peaceful after a trip to Mecca killed in NYC by members of the Nation of Islam in 1965 “We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”

8 Black Panthers, 1966 a more militant version of black power emerged in Oakland est. by Bobby Seales, Huey Newton supported black separatism and went armed to protect blacks from police brutality ran medical clinics provided free food to school children

9 Black Power Stokely Carmichael said AA’s should form their own organizations rejected “mainstream” American society "Black is Beautiful“ black pride: Afro hairstyles, African forms of dress, African names rejected by both the NAACP and the SCLC as racist denounced US war in Vietnam as racist moved with his wife to Guinea, West Africa

10 MLK and Memphis, 1968 increasingly critical of black power and separatism crusaded for the poor went to Memphis to support sanitation workers. Assassinated on April 4, 1968 killed by James Earl Ray

11 Robert Kennedy, 1968 RFK was the front-runner for the democratic nomination killed in LA by a Palestinian, Sirhan Sirhan Nixon became president and the civil rights movement stalled

12 Affirmative Action colleges and businesses tried to increase minority representation in their ranks an income gap still persists today

13 EQ #3: What success and challenges faced the civil rights movement after 1964?

14 MLK / Malcolm X Essay Instructions: Read the quotes and the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Using the information from these sources write a compare and contrast essay using the Step Up to Writing format. Follow the outline below Green / Thesis Summarize the beliefs of MLK and Malcolm X in your first paragraph. One sentence naming them both as civil rights leaders, one sentence about MLK, and one sentence about Malcolm X. Which one would you follow? Biography of MLK Briefly give a biography of MLK. List at least three things from his life that led him to his philosophy of integration. MLK’s philosophy What did MLK believe? Include at least one quote from MLK in this paragraph. Biography of Malcolm X Briefly give a biography of Malcolm X. List at least three things from his life that led him to his philosophy of black nationalism and separation. Malcolm X’s philosophy What did Malcolm X believe? Include at least one quote from Malcolm X in this paragraph. Green / Conclusion Explain which leader you would follow and why. Include an explanation of why integration or separation is a better philosophy.

15 Do you think that the textbook should have the Civil Rights movement as a separate chapter or should it be included with everything else?

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