1. Wonderful Wynnsday, April 22
Take your seat
Take out your notes
Quietly Begin the following
You have 3 minutes to review for your vocabulary quiz
When finished with your reading quiz quietly work on your notebook or timeline

2. Today’s Agenda Vocabulary Quiz Song Analysis and discussion
Bob Dylan – Only a Pawn I Their Game
Discuss FN: The Civil Rights Movement JFK/LBK
Homework:
Read Ch. 14 Sec. 3
Write one of the paragraphs for your timeline

3. The Civil Rights Movement, JFK, and LBJ
New Success and Challenges , , , ,
EQ: What success and challenges faced the civil rights movement after 1964?

4. Freedom Summer, 1964
SNCC sent thousands of volunteers into Miss. to register black voters
3 workers disappeared, they had been murdered
Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman
the movie Mississippi
Burning is about them

5. Selma, AL 1965
marched in response to the shooting of a young man
a court injunction denied them the right to gather near Selma
state troopers stopped them at the Edmund Pettus Bridge
17 people were hospitalized
a 2nd march was stopped but a 3rd escorted by federal troops made it
in 1995, a 30th anniversary march included George Wallace who ordered the police to attack the marchers

6. Voting Rights Act, 1965 banned literacy tests
sent federal registrars to South
federal oversight meant to make registration more fair

7. 24th Amendment banned poll taxes
used to keep blacks and poor whites from voting

8. Watts Riot, 1965
despite legal victories, violence erupted in LA, Detroit, and New Jersey
in LA, 31 blacks and 3 whites killed in a week of rioting that left injured and 4,000+ arrested
$50 million in property damage in Detroit
the Kerner Commission concluded that extreme poverty was the cause
recommended federal money develop cities to relieve poverty

9. Malcolm X
Malcolm Little joined the Nation of Islam and dropped his “slave name”
advocated black separatism and militism
became more peaceful after a trip to Mecca
killed in NYC by members of the Nation of Islam in 1965
“We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”

10. Black Panthers, 1966
a more militant version of black power emerged in Oakland
est. by Bobby Seales, Huey Newton
supported black separatism and went armed to protect blacks from police brutality
ran medical clinics
provided free food to school children

11. Black Power
Stokely Carmichael said AA’s should form their own organizations
rejected “mainstream” American society
"Black is Beautiful“
black pride: Afro hairstyles, African forms of dress, African names
rejected by both the NAACP and the SCLC as racist
denounced US war in Vietnam as racist
moved with his wife to Guinea, West Africa

12. MLK and Memphis, 1968
increasingly critical of black power and separatism
crusaded for the poor
went to Memphis to support sanitation workers.
Assassinated on April 4, 1968
killed by James Earl Ray

13. Robert Kennedy, 1968
RFK was the front-runner for the democratic nomination
killed in LA by a Palestinian, Sirhan Sirhan
Nixon became president and the civil rights movement stalled

14. Affirmative Action
colleges and businesses tried to increase minority representation in their ranks
an income gap still persists today

15. EQ #3: What success and challenges faced the civil rights movement after 1964?

16. MLK / Malcolm X Essay
Instructions: Read the quotes and the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Using the information from these sources write a compare and contrast essay using the Step Up to Writing format. Follow the outline below
Green / Thesis
Summarize the beliefs of MLK and Malcolm X in your first paragraph. One sentence naming them both as civil rights leaders, one sentence about MLK, and one sentence about Malcolm X. Which one would you follow?
Biography of MLK
Briefly give a biography of MLK. List at least three things from his life that led him to his philosophy of integration.
MLK’s philosophy
What did MLK believe? Include at least one quote from MLK in this paragraph.
Biography of Malcolm X
Briefly give a biography of Malcolm X. List at least three things from his life that led him to his philosophy of black nationalism and separation.
Malcolm X’s philosophy
What did Malcolm X believe? Include at least one quote from Malcolm X in this paragraph.
Green / Conclusion
Explain which leader you would follow and why. Include an explanation of why integration or separation is a better philosophy.

17. Do you think that the textbook should have the Civil Rights movement as a separate chapter or should it be included with everything else?