1. Civil Rights becomes violent and moves North.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Civil Rights becomes violent
and moves North.

2. kept blacks out of white areas. King and SCLC set up the Chicago Plan
2. 300,000 blacks in
Chicago. Mayor Daley
kept blacks out of white
areas. King and SCLC
set up the Chicago Plan
(non-violent)
8. Riots turned people
Against Civil Rights.
President did little about
she findings. 1968
Civil Rights Act established
1.Racially segregated
Blacks housing
worse, but 10-20%
more
expensive
7. The Kerner Commission:
divided society
Blacks lived in poverty
high black unemployment
Blacks in low-skilled jobs
Poverty caused riots
3. Chicago Freedom
Movement set up. Focus
on fair housing. March
through Whiter areas;
met with violence
CHICAGO
5. Civil Rights Act
1968 est: focus is
Fair Housing Act
(bans all
discrimination)
King becomes
irrelevant
6. Call for Black power
reached Chicago. More
Race riots in 1966.
President Johnson
ordered an
investigation
4. Black teenagers
open fire hydrant on
a hot day; police shut
it down. Riot starts