5. Brown vs Board of Education

6. JFK

7. Counter-culture

8. Martin Luther King Jr.

9. Pro Athletes

11. JFK’s “New Frontier” Tackle poverty and ignorance
Medical scheme for old and poor
Increased benefits for the unemployed
More spending on housing and education
Too bold for Republicans/Southern Democrats
Smacked of “creeping socialism”

12. JFK’s “New Frontier” No extra money was ever allotted to education
Medicare for elderly was rejected
Some extension of welfare benefits for children
Minimum wage raised to $1.25
Loans available to buy houses

13. JFK’s “New Frontier”
Sent army to Mississippi to ensure that a black student could enroll in the university
Appointed the first Negro ambassador and black warship commander
Wide-ranging Civil Rights bill (illegal for racial discrimination in housing, education, public facilities, and voting – same literacy tests for blacks as for whites)
Bill rejected by Congress

15. Martin Luther King Jr. 26 year old Baptist minister
preached non-violence and passive resistance
‘Freedom Riders’ toured southern cities in buses, organizing sit-ins
these non-violent forms of protest provoked brutal attacks by gangs of white racists

16. Martin Luther King Jr.
March on Washington – people petitioned Kennedy

17. LBJ’s “Great Society” Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill
Banned discrimination against blacks in hotels & restaurants
VISTA
Like the Peace Corps, a “war on poverty” that aimed to create more equality for blacks
The Voting Rights Act
Eliminated the literacy test for voting altogether

18. BURN BABY BURN! BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
Race Riots
Riots in the Watts district of LA caused 35 deaths and $200 (text says $30!) million+ to property
1967 – 26 dead and injured in Newark
43 dead and 2000 injured in Detroit
1968 – King was shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee
two months later, Robert Kennedy was murdered in LA
BURN BABY BURN!
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL

19. Malcolm X Malcolm X was a leading member of Black Muslim movement
“X” used as his surname was a white slave name and he didn’t know his real African surname
Appeared to want an all-out war with the whites

20. Malcolm X
About MLK:
“he got the peace prize, we got the problem. I don’t want the white man giving me medals. If I’m following a general, and he’s leading me into battle, and the enemy tends to give him rewards, or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he gets a peace prize before the war is over.”
Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965

21. Black Panthers Stokely Carmichael founded this militant group
Openly called for the use of violence