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1 Times They Are A Changing...
Lecture 3

2 Standard Examine the role of Civil Rights advocates and the significance of Martin Luther King’s “Letters from Birmingham Jail” and “I Have A Dream” Speech. Essential Question Time!!!

3 Freedom Summer, 1964 SNCC sent thousands of volunteers into Mississippi to register black voters three workers disappeared murdered Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman Mississippi Burning

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

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

8 Watts Riot, 1965 Violence erupted in LA, Detroit, and New Jersey
the Kerner Commission concluded that extreme poverty was the cause recommended federal money develop cities to relieve poverty

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10 Malcolm X Malcolm Little joined the Nation of Islam
dropped his “slave name” advocated black separatism and militarism became more peaceful after a trip to Mecca killed in NYC by members of the Nation of Islam in 1965

11 “We declare our right on this earth
“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.” -Malcolm X

12 Black Power Stokely Carmichael said African Americans should form their own organizations Rejected “mainstream” American society Rejected by both the NAACP and the SCLC as racist

13 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

14 "If I win, I am American, not a black American
"If I win, I am American, not a black American. But if I did something bad, then they would say I am a Negro. We are black and we are proud of being black. Black America will understand what we did tonight." Tommie Smith, 1968

15 MLK and Memphis, 1968 increasingly critical of black power and separatism crusaded for the poor went to Memphis to support sanitation workers killed by James Earl Ray

16 Robert Kennedy, 1968 RFK was the frontrunner for the democratic nomination Killed in LA by a Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan Nixon became president and the civil rights movement stalled

17 Affirmative Action Colleges and businesses tried to increase minority representation in their ranks Income gap still persists today

18 Study Guide Questions 19-25


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