Supreme Court Cases

• What case made segregation legal?– ___________________

• What case made segregation illegal?– ___________________________

Integrating Universities

• 1962 – James Meredith – 1st to enroll University of _________________– Governor kept him from registering, but Pres. Kennedy

sent federal marshals.– Riots erupted and 2 were killed

• 1963 – Governor Wallace vowed to “stand in the schoolhouse door” at Univ. of _______________– Kennedy sent in National Guard & Wallace backed down

__________ – Greensboro Four

Voting Rights - Freedom ________

Right to Vote

• Freedom Summer – (________) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee – organized demonstrations in Selma, AL

• Police attacked and beat many protesters• Pres. Johnson signs ____________Act of 1965– Gives federal gov. power to force local officials to

allow African Americans to register to vote

Freedom RidersMay 4, 1961

Congress of Racial Equality (_________) – organized bus trip to Washington, D.C. to see if desegregation law was being enforced on buses.

__________________________began Dec. 1955

Response to Freedom Riders

• Throughout Alabama citizens stoned and beat riders

• Robert Kennedy asked riders to “__________”• James Farmer said NO• Jackson, Mississippi – police & state troopers

arrested riders• ___________________________finally

enforced court ruling on interstate buses

Freedom ________

“I Have a Dream…” __________________________1963

_________________Summer 1965

Los Angeles – Watts Section

Summers of 65, 66, & 67

Protests, looting, & burning

Newark, New Jersey, Detroit…

26 people dead

$10 million in damages

___________________of 1964

• Passed after Kennedy’s assassination• Outlawed discrimination in hiring & ended

segregation in stores, restaurants, theaters, and hotels

• BUT – still discriminatory laws & poll taxes when it came to voting

Assassinations

• Martin Luther King Jr.– __________, 1968– _____________on balcony of motel– By James Earl Ray

• Malcolm X– February 21, ________– New York speaking engagement– By three men from ____________________