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1 Black Power in the South
KEY THEMES & ISSUES 1. Selma & The Impact of the Voting Rights Act 2. The Transformation of SNCC 3. The Diverse Strands of Black Power

2 Voting Rights: Selma, 1965 SNCC v SCLC Tensions White Selma disunited
Joseph Smitherman Jim Clark vs Wilson Baker “Bloody Sunday”, March MLK “March” March 9, 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, March LBJ & Voting Rights Act of 1965

3 Voting Rights

4 Black Votes Post-Voting Rights Act of ’65
Rise of Black elected officials Julian Bond, GA. State rep, 1966 Andrew Young (Ga) Congress, 1972 Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, 1973 New White Resistance gerrymandering/redistricting annexation (eg: Richmond) white suburban flight “defection” to Republicans Thurmond, Helms Maynard Jackson

5 SNCC After Atlantic City
Waveland Retreat, 1964 Bob Moses rejects interracialism White Folks Project Questioning of nonviolence “Floaters” vs “Hardliners” James Forman 1966: Stokely Carmichael replaces John Lewis as chair, 1967: Student NATIONAL Coordinating Committee blacks only Alliance with Black Panthers

6 Black Power, 1 The Meredith March, June 1966 James Meredith MLK (SCLC)
Stokely Carmichael (SNCC) Floyd McKissick (CORE) Frustration: with limits of white liberalism persistence of systemic racism political organizing needs Floyd McKissick, MLK, & Stokely Carmichael

7 Black Power, 2 Influence of Malcolm X armed self-defense
Robert Williams, NC Deacons for Defense, LA & Miss Racial pride soul music, soul food… Vietnam race, class & militarism

8 1968 SCLC Poor People’s Campaign Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
MLK killed, April 4, 1968: riots CORE & SNCC radicalize more White Backlash Wallace & Nixon Civil Rights Act of 1968 (& riots!) Housing Green & Alexander Decisions, 1968 & ’69 More pressure for desegregating school systems

9 Conclusions 1. A mass southern civil rights movement using nonviolent direct action had won statutory equality by the mid-1960s. 2. After 1965, raised black pride, expectations & the continuing gap between racial theory & practices encouraged more radical tactics & more interest in separatist ideas, as well as continued attempts to harness black political power. 3. The numbers of black elected officials in the South rose dramatically. 4. Some white southerners sought new methods of resistance to minimize the impact of the end of Jim Crow.

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