1. Outcome: The Movement Changes
The Civil Rights Era
Outcome: The Movement Changes

2. The Movement Changes Setting the Stage
Many were growing impatient even though many significant gains had been made
People began to question Martin Luther King’s effectiveness

3. The Movement Changes Watts Riots
Six days or riots in Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles
Started when a white police officer arrested a black driver after he failed the field sobriety test (drunk driving)
Angry crowd watched and started threw rocks and threatened police
In the end: 34 dead, 2,034 injured, 3,952 arrested
Riots were viewed by some as a reaction to racial tension

4. Watts Riots

5. Malcolm X

6. The Movement Changes Malcolm X and the Movement in the North
A movement was growing in the North calling for “segregation as equals”
Emerged in late 1960s
Unlike the South, wanted no white participation
Not very organized
Malcolm X was part of the Black Muslims
He rejected integration and believed in Black Supremacy
Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965

7. The Movement Changes March Against Fear
James Meredith organizes the March Against Fear and is shot & wounded
Martin Luther King arrives to help finish the march
Helps fuel the violent side of the changing movement

8. The Movement Changes Black Power
Stokely Carmichael of SNCC started preaching “Black Power” due to anger, frustration, and impatience
In 1966, a militant group called the Black Panthers was organized

9. The Movement Changes Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall became the 1st black man appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967

10. The Movement Changes What a Year: 1968
The Kerner Commission concluded that white racism was cause of urban violence
Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4 while there to support a black sanitation worker’s strike
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is passed prohibiting discrimination in housing

12. The Movement Changes
Result: The movement does not die with Martin Luther King’s assassination, but it does begin to fade away. The work had been done, however. Schools, busses, and bus facilities were integrated, voting rights were established, blacks were served at lunch counters, and the movement had the Federal government on its side. Today, although not perfect, blacks in this country have many freedoms and opportunities available to them that were only made possible by those patient protesters who worked hard to bring about change during the Civil Rights Movement.

13. The Movement Changes

14. The Movement Changes