1. Civil Rights 50’s & 60’s

2. NAACP The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Advance civil rights. Black voter registration. Legislative and legal maneuvering. Instrumental in Brown.

3. “Sit-in” Movement Woolworth’s lunch counter, Montgomery, Alabama. The movement spread quickly. Boycott as weapon. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Southern black students. No segregation, equality, and voter registration.

4. Birmingham, Alabama - 1960

6. Why Birmingham? Largest almost exclusively segregated city in the South. Bus Boycott. Freedom Riders. Birmingham Bombing. Four small girls killed. The Klan goes to war.

7. “Women love hoods too!”

8. James Meridith and Ole Miss, 1962

9. “March on Washington” March, 1963. “I have a dream.” 200,000 demonstrators in a peaceful march.

10. 1964 Civil Rights Act Gave the gov’t more powers of enforcement in school desegregation cases. Prohibited racial discrimination in all kinds of public accommodations and employment.

11. Voter registration

12. Black power Malcolm X. Movement away from King’s philosophy. Black Panthers. Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Stokely Carmicheal.