1. The Civil Rights Acts of 1964

2. Birmingham 1963: The “Children’s Crusade”

3. Compromise Agreement

4. John F. Kennedy Cautious supporter of Civil Rights
Speech June 11, 1963

5. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill
Public Accommodations
Employment

6. March on Washington, 1963
Model: March on Washington Movement 1941 of A. Phillip Randolph
In support of JFK Civil Rights Bill

7. “Jobs and Freedom”

8. 200,000 – 300,000 participants

10. Disputes SNCC leader John Lewis speech censored
Examples: “In good conscience, we cannot support wholeheartedly the administration's civil rights bill, for it is too little and too late”; “We will march through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did.”

11. MLK “I have a dream”

12. Birmingham Church Bombing
September 1963
Four girls killed

13. Lyndon Johnson becomes President
Nov. 1963: JKF assassinated
Johnson background
Civil Rights Act as JFK “memorial”

14. Success February: passed House of Rep 54–day filibuster in Senate
June 10 passed Senate
July 2, 1964: Signed into Law
July 2: signed by LBJ

15. Voting Rights?

16. Mississippi in 1963 Voter registration drive
Medgar Evers head of NAACP --assassinated June 12, 1963
Byron De La Beckwith; Medgar Evers

17. Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
SNCC, CORE, and local groups
College students from North
“Freedom Democratic Party”

18. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
Philadelphia, Mississippi

19. Election of 1964 July: Civil Rights Act signed
Republican Party: Barry Goldwater (opposed Civil Rights Act on states rights grounds)

20. 1964 Johnson wins landslide
BLUE: REPUBLICAN
RED: DEMOCRATIC