1. Critical Thinking Why were white Southerners so threatened by blacks voting?

2. One Person, One Vote The Struggle for African-American Voting Rights

3. The Legacy of Jim Crow Disenfranchisement Withholding the vote Limits on registration Poll taxes Literacy tests Grandfather clause

4. Challenges to Disenfranchisement Organizing Registration drives Coaching Protests Marches Court cases

5. March on Washington August 28, 1963 Led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) John Farmer Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) 250,000 people

6. March on Washington King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” “…I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

7. Murder in Birmingham Sept. 15, 1963 KKK bombs 16 th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama 26 Children meeting in basement, 4 killed March and this incident cause many to work for civil rights

8. Critical Thinking Why do you think black civil rights workers did not turn to violence in response?

9. 24 th Amendment Proposed August 29, 1962 Ratified January 24, 1964 Abolished Poll Tax Directly affected Virginia Arkansas Alabama Texas Mississippi

10. Freedom Summer Summer 1964 Massive black voter registration drive in Mississippi Young civil rights workers from all over the country Three murdered in August 1964: 6.7% registered 1969: 66.5% registered

11. Civil Rights Act,1964 July 2, 1964 Most sweeping CR legislation since Reconstruction Outlawed discrimination in: Voting Employment Public Services

12. Selma, Alabama 1965 Selma’s blacks prevented from voting by discrimination MLK leads series of attempts to march from Selma to Birmingham, the state capitol. King asks Gov. Wallace to protect marchers Wallace orders police to block marchers

13. Bloody Sunday: March 7, 1965

14. Voting Rights Act, 1965 Selma lights fire under LBJ August 6, 1965 Outlawed any restrictions on voter registration Made registration a federal responsibility in areas with less than 50% registered Active response