1. Challenging Segregation
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2. Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
Fought Segregation
B. Played a key role in desegregating public facilities
C. Used sit-ins in diners, hotels, stores, and movie theatres
C. Also registered voters in the South
Butler movie sit-in scene

3. Freedom Rides
A. Designed to draw attention to segregation in the bus terminals
B. African Americans and whites rode buses into the South
C. Busses were attacked by angry, white mobs
D. Violence on news shocked Americans
E. Forced JFK to get violence under control
Has justice department to take legal action against terminals
Freedom ride clip

4. The role of TV & Media
T.V. broadcast violence against PEACEFUL marchers and protestors
American public disturbed by images of police violence against people, especially young children
Forces federal government to intervene

5. March in Birmingham, Alabama 1963
2,500 arrested, including Dr. King
* King writes “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Students attacked by fire hoses & police dogs
Protestors were non-violent
Forces President Kennedy to introduce a civil rights bill
Birmingham clip

7. Changes made b/c of King and the non-violent civil rights movement
24th Amendment: Outlawed a poll tax (paying to vote)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Gave federal government power to fight discrimination
Made segregation illegal in public places
Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace
Gave the U.S. Attorney General power to end school segregation
The Selma March: “March for freedom” from Selma to state capital in Montgomery. Protestors attacked near Edmund Pettus Bridge – full view of TV cameras. 70 African Americans hospitalized. “Bloody Sunday” on March 7, 1965.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
* Ended discrimination in voting
* Federal government, not local, registered voters
* outlawed literacy tests
Selma - Bloody Sunday
New voting legislation