Transcript Changes and Challenges

Changes and Challenges
Chapter 28-3
Morning Work
November 11, 2016
1st Period
Agenda
 Morning Work
 WRITE QUESTIONS
1. What was the Civil Rights
Act of 1964?
2. What was the
Birmingham Campaign?
 Lecture: Changes and
Challenges
 Mountain Top Speech
 RFK Speech: Dr. King’s Death
(1:34:00-1:36:20)
 The Butler (1:20:00-1:31:00)
 Civil Rights Quiz
Morning Work
2nd/3rd Period
November 10, 2016
Agenda
 Morning Work
 WRITE QUESTIONS
1. What was the Civil Rights
Act of 1964?
2. What was the Freedom
Summer?
 Lecture: Changes and
Challenges
 Mountain Top Speech
 RFK Speech: Dr. King’s Death
(1:34:00-1:36:20)
 The Butler (1:20:00-1:31:00)
 Civil Rights Quiz
Morning Work
 WRITE QUESTIONS
1. What was the 24th
Amendment?
2. What as the Voting
Rights Act of 1965?
November 14, 2016
 Morning Work
 MLK Assassination
 King’s “Mountaintop”
speech
 Civil Rights Quiz
 Lecture: War Develops
3-2-1
 3 civil rights demonstrations
 2 people who started the Black Panther Party
 1 leader of the Nation of Islam
Expanding the Movement

Many people began to
question nonviolent
protest.
Conditions Outside the South
 Segregation was widespread in America
 De facto segregation
 Exists through custom and practice rather than by law
 De jure segregation
 Ends when the laws that create it are repealed
Urban Unrest
 From 1964 to 1967 racial
unrest erupted in most of
the nation’s large cities.
 Watts in Los Angeles
 1965: 35,000 African
Americans took part in
a 6-day riot
 July 1967: Week of
violence in Detroit
Urban Unrest
 Kerner Commission to
study causes of urban
rioting
 Blamed poverty and
discrimination
The Movement Moves North
 MLK focused his
attention on Chicago in
July 1966.
 SCLC’s campaign lasted
eight months
 King’s big failure
Illinois National Guardsmen try to disperse a large crowd of
teen-agers gathered near an apartment building in Cicero,
Illinois, after an African American family moved in.
Chicago Campaign
 Why campaign failed?
 Did not share his civil
rights focus
 Did not consider
themselves segregated
 Police force not as brutal
 King found it hard to
attract media
 King left Chicago in
August 1966
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ducks after being hit on
the head by a rock during a housing discrimination
protest in Chicago
Fractures in the Movement
 United by the goal of ending racial discrimination.
 Conflicts among groups developed
 Some rejected philosophy of non-violence.
Black Power
 Stokely Carmichael
became head of SNCC
(May 1966).
 Abandoned philosophy
of nonviolence
 March Against Fear in
June 1966
 Stokely arrested in
Greenwood, Mississippi
Black Power
 Critics: Black Power
movement was a call to
violent action.
 Carmichael: Black
Power- African
Americans’ dependence
on themselves to solve
problems.
 CORE abandoned
nonviolence
Black Panthers
 Black Power appealed to
young African Americans.
 Huey Newton and Bobby
Seale
 Started Black Panther
Party in Oakland,
California (1966)
 Rejected nonviolence
 Violent revolution
Huey Newton
Black Panthers
Black Muslims
 Nation of Islam
 Large and influential
 Based on Islamic religion
 Started in 1931
 Members: Black Muslims
 Leader: Elijah Muhammad
 Black nationalism, selfdiscipline, and self-reliance
Malcolm X
 Malcolm X
 Minister
 Hope, defiance, and black
pride
 Critical of King and
nonviolence.
 1964: Malcolm X broke with
Elijah Muhammad and Black
Muslims
 February 21, 1965: Malcolm X
was assassinated by Black
Muslims
The Assassination of King
 March 1968 in Memphis,
Tennessee: King went to
aid African American
sanitation workers who
were on strike.
Assassination of King
The Assassination of King
 April 4: James Earl Ray
shot and killed King as
he stood on balcony of
his motel.
 Rioting erupted in more
than 120 cities
Rioting
Rioting in Chicago
Rioting in Washington D.C.