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Birmingham
• Pressure after Albany
• MLK arrested
• ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’
• Read for next seminar
• http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html
Freedom Summer, 1964
• 1961 SNCC campaign in Miss. led by Robert Moses
• 1963 COFO• 1964 Freedom
Summer• MFDP and
Democratic Convention
King on the Defensive
• 1965 FBI leaked stories about his private life
• Summer 1966 Chicago fiasco
• 1967 Came out against the Vietnam War
Memphis, April 4
• MLK supporting garbage worker’strike
• Killed on balcony of hotel
• Riots erupted in over 100 cities
Black Power
• Malcolm X• 1964 SNCC to Africa• Malcolm X killed 21
Feb 1965• 1966 SNCC and
CORE adopted Black Nationalism
• 1966 Meredith march
H. Rap Brown
• 1967 assumed leadership of SNCC
• 1968 joined BP’s
• ‘Violence is necessary and it’s as American as apple pie.’
• Picture shows Brown being led for trial, accused of inciting a riot, 1967