1. Notes 3.3B –Changes in the African-American Civil Rights Movement

2. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Was proposed by JFK
Was signed by Lyndon B Johnson after Kennedy’s death
What it did:
Outlawed most discriminatory practices and segregation
Increased federal power to prosecute in cases of discrimination
Created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to allow blacks access to better jobs and pay

3. Economic Rights MLK shifts from political rights to economic rights
Most blacks live in poverty and slums
Chicago Movement – MLK brings attention to the conditions in slums
Push for equal jobs, equal pay (still not equal today)

4. Watts Riots
Occurred just days after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed (summer of 1965)
Police brutality against a black man sparked the riots, spread through the country from the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles
Lasted six days, 900 injured, 34 killed, $45 million in damages
Riots continued through 1968 around the country
Violence had come to Civil Rights

5. Watts Riot Newsreel

6. Black Power –
many meanings; Pride in African-American community; violence acceptable

7. Stokely Carmichael Speech: Black Power

8. Black Power – Stokley Carmichael Malcolm X & the Nation of Islam
Leader of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)
Believed blacks should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle
Malcolm X & the Nation of Islam
Preached black nationalism – self governing black communities
In 1964, Malcolm X broke with the Nation of Islam and accepted racial peace could exist
Assassinated in 1965 by members of the Nation of Islam

10. Black Panthers
Leaders: Huey Newton, Bobby Seales, and Eldridge Cleaver
Militant African-American group
Preached black nationalism, black power, and economic self-sufficiency
Recruited from poor, urban communities
Believed a revolution was needed and encouraged arming selves to fight against racial oppression, create black empowerment, and gain control of major institutions and services in their communities

11. Bobby Seale: Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program

12. Different viewpoints: MLK and Malcolm X

14. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.