1. Part I: The Rights Movements
The End of Consensus
Part I: The Rights Movements

3. Background
The Great Migration
Rise of black militancy—Marcus Garvey
The New Deal & the Democratic Party
World War II experience
Legal victories

4. Stages of Protest Stage 1 Goal-- end de jure segregation in South
Strategy--Nonviolent protests
Leaders—M.L. King and the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Highpoints—March on Washington, 1963
Civil Rights Acts 1964 & 1965

5. Stages of Protest Stage 2 Goal—achieving economic equality in
Northern and Western urban areas
Strategy—militancy and armed resistance
Leaders---Stokely Carmichael & Huey
Newton & SNCC & Black Panthers
Highpoint—promotion of black pride

6. Splintering of the Movement
Urban riots
Watts—1965
Newark—1967
Detroit—1967
King’s death—
April 4, 1968

7. Legacy of Civil Rights Increasing educational levels
Movement into the middle class
Participation in larger culture
(end of Jim Crow)
Achievement in all work areas, including the presidency
Model for other groups’ rights movements

8. Other Rights Movements
The Chicano movement
The Native American movement
The gay/lesbian movement
The women’s movement

9. Part II: The Vietnam Era
John F. Kennedy’s presidency—the Cold War Warrior & flexible response
Bay of Pigs
The Berlin wall
The Cuban missile crisis
Vietnam policy

11. Lyndon Johnson’s presidency
The 1964 election
Vietnam—Escalation
the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution & the TET Offensive
Reaction on the home front
TV’s role
The New Left—the SDS &
the Counter Culture

12. Summary 1. 2. 3. 4.