1. Chapter 21 Part 2 Pages 710-716

2. Terms to Know Freedom Riders Civil Rights Act 1964 Freedom Summer Votiing Rights Act 1965 Amendment 24 Fair Housing Act 1968 (aka Civil Rights Act 1968)

3. The Kennedy Years and Civil Rights Remember…Kennedy had to deal with the Dixiecrats…like Truman did JFK said that he preferred to enforce existing Civil Rights Laws rather than create new ones

4. The Freedom Riders SCLC, SNCC, CORE and many White folks got on board busses to travel all over the South to test the Civil Rights Act of 1957 Violence Police participated even when they had told the Feds that they would protect the riders Alabama and Mississippi…the worst

5. James Meredith A veteran and war hero Enrolled at the Universtiy of Miss. Governor Barnett blocked the doorway Kennedy sent 400 Federal Marshalls Cost the U.S> taxpayers $400,000 to get that guy 4 years of college

6. The Marches and demonstrations Children attacked by hoses and police dogs Televised!

7. Governor George Wallace…Alabama Blocked the door to the University of Alabama to Black Students who had enrolled The same day, Medgar Evers, an NAACP leader who had organized a bus Boycott in Jackson, Miss was gunned down in from of his home

8. Kennedy addressed the nation Said he intended to introduce a Civil Rights bill to Congress ML King organized a march on Washington in Support

9. JFK and RFK Tried to stop the march They were too late King’s I have a Dream speech: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=i+hav e+a+dream+speech&FORM=VIRE7#view=deta il&mid=E74D996E7F68981D55D5E74D996E7F 68981D55D5 http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=i+hav e+a+dream+speech&FORM=VIRE7#view=deta il&mid=E74D996E7F68981D55D5E74D996E7F 68981D55D5

10. Kennedy’s Deal with King SNCC, Core, and Black Muslims did not agree Split in the Civil Rights movement. The Student grouops became more separatist and more political…by 1968 they were much like the Black Panthers when SNCC was led by Stokley Carmichale

11. Then JFK was assassinated

12. Civil Rights and LBJ The Kennedy Card Thurgood Marshall: first Black man named to the Supreme Court The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Banned discrimination in employment and most public accomodations

13. Freedom Summer White College kids and SNCC and CORE members went South to register Black voters Trouble: Three youths picked up by police, were released late at night and disappeared. Car was found…burned out

14. LBJ Sent Navy Seals to dreg lakes, ponds, rivers to find the kids. Found them. The Black kid had been tortured Voting Rights Act of 1965: Federal Marshalls would register Black voters

15. 1965 Malcolm X Assassinated By the Nation of Islam? Apostasy.

16. Amendment 24 Eliminated the Poll Tax Eventually The Cvil Rights Act of 1968 Aka The Fair Housing Act LBJ believed the Civil Rights movement was the moral issue of the day.

17. The Big March Demonstrations, etc. = more violence, Black men killed King Arranged for a 50-mile march in protest of the deaths from Montgomery to Selma Alabama All violence televised

18. Police dogs and fire hoses Were used against CHILDREN! Huge support for Civil Rights groups from the Northern white Middle Class