1. 16.3 Notes: New Issues Malcolm X
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything.
If you're a man, you take it.”

2. 1. The Changing Movement By 1966? OK. So what is wrong?
By the 1960s racial injustice was no longer limited to the south.
By 1966?
69% of Black Americans were living in metropolitan areas
45% were living outside of the south
OK. So what is wrong?
American society is improving.
Poor urban communities were not.
More than 50% of nonwhites lived in poverty.
Black unemployment was 2x that of whites.

3. The battle against racism was moving out of the south.
The Changing Movement
The battle against racism was moving out of the south.

4. The battle against racism was moving out of the south. How?
The Changing Movement
The battle against racism was moving out of the south. How?

5. The Changing Movement De Jure Segregation & De Facto Segregation
De Jure Segregation by law Example? Jim Crow Laws
De Facto Segregation in practice Example? Residential living patterns

6. De Facto Segregation De Jure Segregation
Mid-West & North
De Facto Segregation
De Jure
Segregation
South
The Two Different Black Americas

7. How does one end de facto segregation?
The Changing Movement
How does one end de facto segregation?

8. Is it unconstitutional to be racist or have racist beliefs?
The Changing Movement
Is it unconstitutional to be racist or have racist beliefs?

9. The Changing Movement Urban areas were becoming tense
De jure segregation can be ended.
De facto segregation is a choice.
Urban areas were becoming tense
due to lack of opportunity.
Riots broke out in:
Harlem
Chicago
Cleveland
Los Angeles
Number of riots in the summer of 1967? 43

10. The Watts Riots in Los Angeles

11. 2. Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders
Task?
Find out what caused these riots.
Findings?
White racism & the formation of two different American cultures:
Inner-City Blacks & Suburban Whites

12. Angry white mobs stopped him from marching through the city.
3. Chicago Movement
MLK, Jr. and his wife move into a slum apartment in Chicago to draw attention to poor neighborhoods and housing.
Outcome?
Angry white mobs stopped him from marching through the city.
Mayor Richard Daley wanted to stop tension, so he promised to clean up the slums.

13. From Integration to Racial Distinction
Black Power
Malcolm X

14. Founder of “Black Power”
“If you are nonviolent, if you suffer, then your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart...[King] only made one fallacious assumption.
In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”
Stokely Carmichael
Leader of SNCC in 1966
Founder of “Black Power”

15. Black Power Encouraged:
Black Power Movement
Suggested a move away from interracial cooperation and toward increased awareness of racial distinction.
Black Power Encouraged:
Study of black history
Pride in black heritage
Stimulate black literary & artistic movements
Rejection of white cultural practices
Most Importantly?
Schism forms within the Civil Rights Movement
(What do you think “schism” means?)

16. Civil Rights Organizations
Non-Aggressive
Radical/Militant
NAACP The Urban League SCLC SNCC CORE
SNCC
CORE

17. Malcolm X & The Nation of Islam

18. Malcolm X
Malcolm X Mini-Bio "...and after America has long passed from the scene, there will still be Black people.” Black Separation "The Powder Keg” A Letter From Mecca The Audubon Ballroom

19. 6. Black Panthers
1966 Oakland, California “Black Panther Party for Self-Defense” urban followers of Malcolm X counterculture, socialism Revolution was necessary so blacks should arm themselves and force whites to give them equal rights Confrontational, militant, sometimes violent
J. Edgar Hoover called them the “greatest threat to the internal security of the country”