1. Chapter 22 Section 1 Day 2 Freedom Now!
With the success of the Freedom Rides, Martin Luther King, Jr. steps up the efforts of the Civil Rights movement.

2. Continued Struggles In the South
Freedom Rider’s commitment to nonviolence helped advance their cause
However, racial discrimination was still very rampant in
Schools
Public facilities

3. University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
1962
NAACP get court order requiring Ole Miss to accept black students in their college
1st student = James Meredith
Problem
Gov. Ross Barnett declared
“No school will be integrated in Mississippi while I am governor!”

4. Sept. 30, 1962 James Meredith is kept from enrolling in classes by Gov
Sept. 30, James Meredith is kept from enrolling in classes by Gov. Barnett!
Riots break out on campus!
2 students were killed
375 injured.

5. Sept. 31, 1962 – May 1963 James Meredith was escorted to class by guards! He graduated top of his class!

6. Civil Rights in Georgia did not go so well!
1961
Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested and put in jail
Why?
Civil disobedience.
MLK, Jr. writes his famous
“Letters from Birmingham Jail”
Demands nonviolent protests go on without him!

7. Protests go bad!

8. To worse…

9. To terrible…

10. JFK finally does something to help!!!....sort of.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
JFK writes this in summer of 1963
Did not publish it for fear of losing votes!
Would have guaranteed all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public.

11. African Americans March to Washington demanding change!
August 1963
Led by
A. Phillip Randolph (74 yrs old!)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just got out of jail a few months earlier.
They decided to bring some of their supporters…

12. March on Washington 200,000 Americans Marched!

13. Opening Speech was given by A
Opening Speech was given by A. Philip Randolph on steps of Abraham Lincoln

14. Martin Luther King, Jr. would end the ceremonies with a speech titled “I have a Dream”