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1 Civil Rights in the 1960s §Freedom Riders, Ol’ Miss, and Birmingham §The March on Washington §LBJ and Civil Rights §Legislating Civil Rights: 1964-65 §Black Power §Nixon and Civil Rights: The Triumph of Conservatism

2 Freedom Rides 1961

3 After fire-bombing

4 Federal troops guarding the riders

5 James Meredith and The University of Mississippi

6 Birmingham

7 The March on Washington 1963

8 Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights

9 §Civil Rights Act of 1964: Outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants and public accommodations.

10 Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights §Civil Rights Act of 1964: Outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants and public accommodations. §24th Amendment: outlawed poll taxes in federal elections.

11 Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights §Civil Rights Act of 1964: Outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants and public accommodations. §24th Amendment: outlawed poll taxes in federal elections. §Voting Rights Act of 1965: outlawed literacy tests, removed obstacles to voter registration, and sent federal inspectors into South to make sure states complied.

12 Black Power §Urban Race Riots: 1965-1967

13 Black Power §Urban Race Riots: 1965-1967 §Stokely Charmichael and SNCC: 1966

14 Black Power §Urban Race Riots: 1965-1967 §Stokely Charmichael and SNCC: 1966 §H. Rap Brown and SNCC: 1967

15 Black Power §Urban Race Riots: 1965-1967 §Stokely Charmichael and SNCC: 1966 §H. Rap Brown and SNCC: 1967 §Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and the Black Panthers

16 The Black Panther Party

17 Malcolm X

18 April 4 1968 Memphis

19 Richard Nixon and Civil Rights


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