1. Disenfranchisement
: is the revocation of the right of suffrage of a person or group of people, or through practices, prevention of a person exercising the right to vote. Disfranchisement may be accomplished explicitly by law or implicitly through requirements applied in a discriminatory fashion, intimidation, or by placing unreasonable requirements on voters for registration or voting.

2. Voting Disenfranchisement through poll taxes, literacy tests, violence
Freedom Summer; effort to register voters in Mississippi
Selma to Montgomery marches; “Bloody Sunday” extreme violence led to sympathy for African American’s.

3. Victories!
Voting rights act of 1965; banned literacy tests and allowed federal governments to oversee voting registration and elections.
24th amendment; banned poll taxes!
Effect of all this?! More African American’s elected into public office!

4. Progress had been made but America still had a race issue
Progress had been made but America still had a race issue. The late 1960’s saw an increase in racial violence and riots around the country.

5. Malcolm X
In the late 1960s as violence continued many African American’s abandoned non-violent protests and became radical
Malcolm X was the most well-known radical leader
Became a member of the Nation of Islam and advocated separation of the races

7. Black Panthers A more militant African American group
Patrolled urban neighborhoods to protect people from police abuse
Created antipoverty programs
Celebrated African roots

8. Advances/Setbacks Civil Rights movement accomplished major goals
African American poverty rates fell
Thurgood Marshall appointed first African American Supreme Court Justice
Fair Housing Act; which banned discrimination in housing. Passed after MLK assassinated.
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Violence continued
Controversial issues remain
Affirmative Action
Status of African Americans

9. MLK vs. Malcolm X
Use readings, quotes, previous knowledge, and knowledge from video to do the following: 1. Make a T-Chart together 2. Answer the following: Compare and contrast Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X’s role in the Civil Rights movement.

10. “Glory”
What references are made to the Civil Rights Movement? Explain how they are used.
What references are made to current racial issues in America?