1. What do you know about MLK and Malcolm X?
Warm Up 4/26 (#3)
What do you know about MLK and Malcolm X?

2. Things You Should Know NAACP Challenged laws restricting African Am.
Segregation
Middle and upper class African Am./liberal white Americans

3. SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference
African American clergymen
Nonviolent protest
Shifts focus of movement
MLK notable leader

4. SNCC – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Allowed youth to get involved
Strong force for Civil Rights

5. Achieving Success and Differing Views

6. A New President Kennedy pushes for civil rights
Moved slow at first
Couldn’t ignore violence
Calls for action after Birmingham incidents
Proposes Civil Rights bill

7. March on Washington Organized to bring attention to bill
Jobs and Freedom
Organized to bring attention to bill
August 1963: 200,000 march on Washington, D. C.
Slogan: jobs and freedom
MLK delivers speech

8. A Leader lost Nov. 22, 1963 – Kennedy assassinated
Not necessarily connected to Civil Rights actions

9. Success under Johnson

10. Civil Rights Act 1964
Johnson pushes Kennedy’s bill through stalled Congress
Equal voting
No discrimination in public places
Punishment for discrimination
Equality in workplace

11. Fighting for the Vote Successes Voting Rights Act 1965 24th Amendment
Freedom Summer
Registration drive
Selma march
Successes
Voting Rights Act 1965
Outlaws literacy tests and other barriers to voting
24th Amendment
No poll taxes

12. Changing Ideas

13. Malcolm X Grew up poor Joined Nation of Islam in jail
Teenage crimes led to 7 year prison sentence
Joined Nation of Islam in jail
Preached black separation and self-help
Black Nationalism
Separate identity and racial unity
White society = enemies
Later breaks with NOI after betrayal of mentor

14. Malcolm X Pilgrimage to Mecca softens ideas
Returns and seeks to work with white and other civil rights leaders
Assassinated for abandoning NOI ideals

15. Shifts in the Movement Black Power Carmichael makes SNCC more radical
Becomes all black organization bent on faster results and building up the black community to lead and speak for itself

16. Shifts in the Movement Black Panthers
Formed in response to Malcolm X ideas and brutal conditions in inner cities
Worked to build up communities with breakfast programs and medical care
Worked to end police injustice
Documented black/police interactions while carrying a gun
Often arrested (seen as dangerous radicals), leading to eventual disintegration of the party

17. More leaders lost Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy
1968: Assassinated while organizing economic efforts
Robert F. Kennedy
Civil Rights supporter after brother’s death
Runs for president and wins California
Assassinated one day later

18. Other successes
1970s: # of African American elected officials rises dramatically
Desegregation laws improve lives of many African Americans
Rise in pride for African America culture

19. Who Said It?

20. "If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." 
-MLK

21. "People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other
-MLK

22. “I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin...” 
-Malcolm X

23. "There comes a time when silence is betrayal.“
-MLK

24. “Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people
“Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic phase of biology knows that white is considered recessive and black is considered dominant. When you want strong coffee, you ask for black coffee. If you want it light, you want it weak, integrated with white milk. Just like these Negroes who weaken themselves and their race by this integrating and intermixing with whites. …”
-Malcolm X

25. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.“
-MLK

26. “Time is more important to me then distance”
-Malcolm X

27. “The world since Adam has been white—and corrupt
“The world since Adam has been white—and corrupt. The world of tomorrow will be black—and righteous. In the white world there has been nothing but slavery, suffering, death and colonialism. In the black world of tomorrow, there will be true freedom, justice and equality for all. And that day is coming—sooner than you think.”
-Malcolm X

28. “I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.”
-Malcolm X

29. "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." 
-MLK