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1 Birmingham Pressure after Albany MLK arrested ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ Read for next seminar http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/M LK-jail.html

2 March On Washington, Aug 1963

3 Signing the Civil Rights Act, 1964

4 Selma, Alabama, 1965

5 The Voting Rights Act

6 Freedom Summer, 1964 1961 SNCC campaign in Miss. led by Robert Moses 1963 COFO 1964 Freedom Summer MFDP and Democratic Convention

7 Watts, 11 August 1965 50-80,000 inolved 34 killed, 900 injured 4,000 arrests $35 M damage

8 Newark, 1967 Young boy injured during rioting Riots 1966-7 in various US cities

9 Detroit, 1967 – The Aftermath

10 King on the Defensive 1965 FBI leaked stories about his private life Summer 1966 Chicago fiasco 1967 Came out against the Vietnam War

11 Memphis, April 4 MLK supporting garbage worker’strike Killed on balcony of hotel Riots erupted in over 100 cities

12 Black Power Malcolm X 1964 SNCC to Africa Malcolm X killed 21 Feb 1965 1966 SNCC and CORE adopted Black Nationalism 1966 Meredith march

13 H. Rap Brown 1967 assumed leadership of SNCC 1968 joined BP’s ‘Violence is necessary and it’s as American as apple pie.’ Picture shows Brown being led for trial, accused of inciting a riot, 1967

14 The Black Panthers 1966 BPs founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale Cleaver Soul on Ice (1968)

15 Mexico, 1968

16 ‘A long time coming,and a long time gone…’

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