1. Chapter 28 Section 3 The Civil Rights Movement Riddlebarger
Voting Rights
Chapter 28
Section 3
The Civil Rights Movement
Riddlebarger

2. Gaining Voting Rights
After the Civil Rights Act of 1964, SCLC shifts their focus to voting rights.

3. Registering Voters Kennedy administration involvement
voter registration
Fed protection
key to change in the South
State’s rights?

4. Voter Education Project
Resistance
Voter Education Project.
Over 1/2 million registered
Mississippi

5. 24th Amendment
1962: Congress approves 24th Amendment

6. Freedom Summer Volunteers Miami University (OH) Voter registration
Summer Schools
Mississippi spent $82/white student; $22/black student on education

7. Crisis in Mississippi 1st 200 volunteers arrive Immediate tragedy
June 1964
Immediate tragedy
2/3 of volunteers go home
No charges
Federal response
Successes?

8. 1964 Election Freedom Summer overshadowed by 1964 election.
Lyndon Johnson (D)
Barry Goldwater (R )
Halting protests
SNCC
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party- Democratic convention
LBJ’s Great Society

9. Selma
Jan. 1965: Dr. King & campaign for voting rights in Selma, Alabama.
LBJ & Government inaction
Selma: arrests but controlled response
King’s arrest & attention.

10. Selma March 4-day march planned.
Gov. Wallace: “It will not be tolerated.”
March 7, 1965: 600 marchers set out for Montgomery

11. Violence in Selma
marchers are attacked by state police using tear gas, clubs, chains and cattle prods.
TV footage
No Dr. King
King response
With Federal protection, the march reaches Montgomery on March 25.

12. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Pres. Johnson reacts
Voting Rights Act of Gives the Federal government the ability to break down barriers preventing blacks from voting (literacy tests, etc.)