1. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Federal govt. has broad power to prevent racial discrimination and racial segregation made illegal
“Mississippi Burning” movie (1980)
Depicting 1967 FBI investigation

2. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT – PUSH FOR VOTER REGISTRATION
Sheriff Jim Clark, Dallas County, Alabama
“Selma to Montgomery March”

3. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Banned literacy tests, and empowered the federal govt. to oversee voter registration and elections in states that had a history of discrimination amongst minorities

4. Housing Desegregation – Northern Cities
“Chicago Campaign”
- Housing desegregation
Housing Desegregation – Northern Cities

5. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT – Economic Problems
Chicago Campaign
- Housing desegregation, quality education & health care, transportation improvements, job opportunities, & community development
Housing Desegregation in Northern Cities

6. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT – Economic Problems
Watts Riots
in Los Angeles
Detroit Riots
July, 1967
** One of the deadliest and most destructive riots in U.S. History

7. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT – “Black Power” Movement
Self-defense
Violence if necessary
Control of their own lives
Malcolm X
Tough upbringing
Prison “conversion”
Support “black nationalism”
Black Panthers

8. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT – Black Power Movement
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
** April 4, 1968

9. MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
[1] Power of “Each Other” – their determination & perseverance
[2] Power of the Media

10. KKK in the 1960’s

11. KKK and White Supremacy Today

12. Banned White Supremacy Images in Germany

14. 1960`s Counterculture
Referred to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon developed first in the United States.

15. Hippie Culture

16. Hippie Culture
Clothing: By wearing cheap surplus clothes, recycled from earlier decades and repaired with patches, they showed that they were rejecting both consumerism and
the social class structure.

17. Counter-Culture of the 1960’s-70’s
Folk Music