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Reading #4: Consequences of the Civil Rights Movement

Reading #4: Consequences of the Civil Rights Movement. Civil Rights Legislation. Objective… Identify & explain the legislative actions that advanced CRs during the LBJ Administration.

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Reading #4: Consequences of the Civil Rights Movement

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  1. Reading #4:Consequences of the Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Legislation

  2. Objective… Identify & explain the legislative actions that advanced CRs during the LBJ Administration. LBJ was sworn on Nov. 22, 1963. The swearing in ceremony took place on Air Force One before leaving Dallas for Washington D.C

  3. LBJ takes over for JFK… JFK’s funeral procession...

  4. The Great Society • The most far reaching social reform since the New Deal • The goals… • End poverty • Protect minorities • Protect consumers • Improve children’s health • Improve medical care

  5. An influential book…The Other America (1962) by M. Harrington • Claims 20% of America is… • Inadequately housed • Malnourished • No or poor medical care • Below poverty level “What good was winning the right to sit at the lunch counter if one could not afford to buy a hamburger” …Out of Many

  6. The War on Poverty The 1964 State of the Union address…“This administration today, here and now declares unconditional war on poverty” – LBJ LBJ State of Union War on Poverty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfT03Ihtlds

  7. The 24th Amendment Poll Tax Receipt

  8. LBJ: The Civil Rights Bill of 1964 • JFK’s bill.. LBJ urges to be passed ... “a fitting tribute to JFK” • Empowers the federal government to end segregation in the South • Prohibited segregation in public places... Hotels, restaurants, etc • Enforcement includes race, religion, gender & religion, national origin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK2GdOxz3s0

  9. The Election of 1964 LBJGoldwater Electoral: 486 52 Pop. vote %: 61% 31.4% • Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress • A mandate for change

  10. Following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act the main goal becomes securing the right to vote.

  11. 1964: Mississippi Freedom Summer • WHO?... SNCC& CORE sponsor 900+ volunteers • WHAT?... Register voters • Freedom Schools… • Freedom Dem. Party… • WHERE?... Mississippi • WHEN?... Summer of 1964

  12. Voter Registration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY6Dg35-tIw

  13. Freedom Summer The murdered CRs workers… - James Chaney,- - Andrew Goodman & - Michael Schwerner • 3 CR workers murdered - 30 bombings - 80 beatings - 35 shootings The car of the murdered CR workers

  14. The Results of… • National media attention • 60K voters registered • 40 Freedom schools • MFDP sent delegates to DNC challenging the all-white delegates

  15. The Selma Campaign • 1965- SNCC organizes a voter registration in Selma, Alabama • 3,000 AAs arrested • March, 1965 - Protestors plan a 50 mile march from Selma to Montgomery, AL to deliver grievances to Gov. Wallace

  16. The Selma to Montgomery March • March 7, 1965- “Bloody Sunday”… Police use tear gas & beatings to stop 600 marchers

  17. The Selma to Montgomery March On March 21, 1965- 3,000 members led by MLK with Federal Protection marched… numbers grow to 30,000

  18. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Eliminates literacy tests • Allowed federal officials to register voters • The 24th Amendment eliminates poll taxes First time since the Reconstruction period blacks are moving back to the South.

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