Civil Rights Movement

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A nation watches Birm. Protests running out of steam

Turn to children 1963-1,000 Afr. Am youths march; most

arrested The following day, youths met in a

church, preparing to march again. Bull Connor has them barricaded and police use dogs and hoses to keep them contained

Connor’s plan backfires Images on newspapers and Tv’s

across the country Shock swept nation concerning

South’s actions Civil Rights leaders meet w/city,

90 day limit on segregation to come

Racism still looms Ku Klux Klan holds rallies

Bombing would later occur at hotel of Afr. Am leaders

Kennedy threatens intervention Sept. 15, Sixteenth Street Baptist

Church 4 girls killed in bombing

For ‘jobs and freedom’ 1963 shows us another protest

March on Washington Throwback to A. Philip Randolph in

’41 Aug. 28, over 250,000 people marched Contained 60,000 whites, clergymen,

union workers, students, celebs like Rosa and Jackie

“I Have A Dream”Martin Luther King delivers his speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal…” When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

Government at work Civil rights bill (cautiously supported by

JFK) going through Congress After assassination of JFK, LBJ

continues to push for bill Filibustered in Senate- speaking to

prevent legislative action Finally passed on July 2, 1964-banned

discrimination on basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin

Voting Freedom Summer

Campaign to register black voters by CORE and SNCC

Focused effort in Mississippi Most volunteers were white college

students from the North Violence followed

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered while visiting the site of a burned church

Selma march to Montgomery over voting rights ends in violence

World once again witnesses images and follows with outrage

Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes

Registered voters rose from 7 to 59 % in Mississippi in 4 years

What assumptions and beliefs do you think guided the opposition in the South to the civil rights movement?Social/political structure in south

Actions of police and some white southerners

1964- Alabama Gov. George Wallace: “It is ironicial that this event occurs

as we approach the celebration of Independence Day. On that day we won our freedom. On this day we have largely lost it.”

What do you think Wallace meant by that? Why would he say that?