Post on 20-Jun-2015
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Civil Rights 50’s & 60’s
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• Advance civil rights.
• Black voter registration.
• Legislative and legal maneuvering.
• Instrumental in Brown.
“Sit-in” Movement
• Woolworth’s lunch counter, Montgomery, Alabama.
• The movement spread quickly.
• Boycott as weapon.
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC). Southern black students. No segregation, equality, and voter registration.
Birmingham, Alabama - 1960
Why Birmingham?
• Largest almost exclusively segregated city in the South.
• Bus Boycott.
• Freedom Riders.
• Birmingham Bombing. Four small girls killed. The Klan goes to war.
“Women love hoods too!”
James Meridith and Ole Miss, 1962
“March on Washington”
• March, 1963.• “I have a dream.”• 200,000 demonstrators
in a peaceful march.
1964 Civil Rights Act
• Gave the gov’t more powers of enforcement in school desegregation cases.
• Prohibited racial discrimination in all kinds of public accommodations and employment.
Voter registration
Black power
• Malcolm X.• Movement away from
King’s philosophy.• Black Panthers.• Bobby Seale, Huey
Newton, Stokely Carmicheal.