1. New Successes & Challenges
Chapter 14 Section 3

2. Lecture Focus Question
What successes and challenges faced the civil rights movement after 1964?

3. Pushing for Voting Rights
Freedom Summer: SNCC’s major campaign to register voters in the Mississippi
Voting Rights Act of 1965: banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voting registration
24th Amendment: banned the poll taxes

4. Frustration Explodes Watts Riots 1965: Started with a drunk suspect
Rioting, looting, and shooting for 6 days
“Burn, baby, burn!”
34 dead
3,952 arrested
$40 million in damages

5. Malcolm X Parents were followers of Marcus Garvey
Imprisoned as a youth
Found religion
Nation of Islam: group that preached black separation and self-help
Black Nationalism: belief in separate identity and racial unity of African-Americans
Opposed to integration

6. Black Power Movement SNCC shifts gears Black Panthers
Stokely Carmichael
Black Panthers
Bobby Seale
Black Power
Black is beautiful
Became symbol of militancy
“Freedom by any means necessary!”
Violent encounters with police
Isolated white supporters

7. International Attention
1968 Olympics in Mexico City
“I couldn't salute the flag in the accepted manner because it didn't represent me fully; only asking me to be great on the track and then obliging me to come home and be just another nigger.”
Suspended from U.S. team
Banned from the Olympic Village

8. 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated Bobby Kennedy assassinated
Movement is fragmented
Nixon elected to office and Vietnam War expanded
America is left shattered
Optimistic generation plunged into gloom
Protest movements shifted toward protesting Vietnam War

9. Lecture Focus Question
What successes and challenges faced the civil rights movement after 1964?