1. Left Side – Warm Up: Successes of the Civil Rights movement 1957-1964
List them
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
DeJure Segregation dies 2

2. Black Nationalism 1

3. Nation of Islam Elijah Mohammed
leader of the Nation of Islam or Black Muslims
Malcolm X
Malcolm Little
By age 21 in jail – after release joined
the Black Muslims:
1. blacks should separate from whites
2. encouraged black community to
develop their own economic and political
parties.
3. promoted importance of African Americans taking
pride in their culture
4. promoted self-defense – “Self defense is not
violence; it is intelligence” 4

5. Violence in the 1960s Cities Unemployment, poor housing, crime
Watts, Harlem, Detroit,…

6. Black Power had a variety of meanings – political power, economic power and pride in being black
“ This country knows what power is. It knows it very well. And it knows what Black Power is ‘cause it deprived black people of it for 400 years. So it knows what Black Power is…WE are on the move for our liberation…The question is, Will white people overcome their racism and allow for that to happen in this country? If that does not happen, brothers and sisters, we have no choice but to say very clearly, “MOVE OVER, OR WE’RE GOING TO MOVE ON OVER YOU”.

7. Black Panthers 1966 Oakland, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale
Self-Reliance – set up schools, hot breakfast programs, registered voters, collected weapons to patrol their own neighborhoods
Self-Defense
End police brutality 5

8. Assassination of King 1968 Memphis, Tennessee Poor People’s March-
planned for Wash DC
to emphasize problems
of urban
poor
Shot and
killed on balcony
of his hotel room by James Earl Ray 6