1. Civil Rights – Day 5
Contrast the nonviolent methods of civil rights with methods used by other civil rights leaders.

2. What U.S. state has the highest ratio of folks 65 or older?
Bell Work 5
Time Table
Bell Work – 10 min.
Lecture Notes – 25 min.
Class Work – 20 min.
What U.S. state has the highest ratio of folks 65 or older?
Florida
What court case ended segregation?
Brown v. the Board of Education
What was at the heart of MLK’s civil rights movement?
Love & Nonviolence
“I’m sick and tired of going to funerals of black men who have been murdered by white men…I’ve got vengeance in my heart tonight.”
David Dennis

3. A Different Direction Nation of Islam/Black Muslims
Out the nonviolent movement came those who questioned its effectiveness.
The Nation of Islam began in 1930 in Detroit, MI based off the Islamic religion but preaching black supremacy.
Elijah Muhammad became the leader in the early 1930’s, pushing for black nationalism.
Muhammad grew his organization from 8,000 to an estimated 100,000 by 1970.

4. Malcolm X Malcolm Little “X”, born in 1925, grew up in Michigan.
His father was a Baptist minister who was killed in what many consider racially motivated murder.
Despite this, Malcolm tried to ignore racism until he told a white English teacher he wanted to become an attorney.
His teacher responded that this was an unrealistic goal for an African American.
Admittedly from that point Little changed, became unruly and went to jail for 10 years.

5. It was in prison, Little embraced the teachings of Elijah Muhammad.
When released in 1952, Little changed his name to “X” as a rejection of his slave name and became a leader in the Nation of Islam, championing separatism.
Malcolm pushed freedom “by any means necessary”.
Listen to Malcolm X speech

6. Malcolm eventually began a transformation in beliefs.
In 1964 he took a trip to Mecca where he was exposed to more traditional Islamic beliefs.
He broke with the Black Muslims and began calling for unity.
“We will work with anyone, with any group, no matter what their color is, as long as they are genuinely interested in taking the type of steps necessary to bring an end to the injustices that black people in this country are afflicted by.”
Malcolm had little time to act on his new ideas as he was gunned down by three Black Muslim assassins in 1965.

7. Class Work Read “The Movement Fractures” on Pg. 935
Why did some African Americans embrace the Black Power movement?