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Birmingham

Birmingham. Pressure after Albany MLK arrested ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ Read for next seminar http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html. March On Washington, Aug 1963. Signing the Civil Rights Act, 1964. Selma, Alabama, 1965. The Voting Rights Act. Freedom Summer, 1964.

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Birmingham

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  1. Birmingham • Pressure after Albany • MLK arrested • ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ • Read for next seminar • http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html

  2. March On Washington, Aug 1963

  3. Signing the Civil Rights Act, 1964

  4. Selma, Alabama, 1965

  5. The Voting Rights Act

  6. Freedom Summer, 1964 • 1961 SNCC campaign in Miss. led by Robert Moses • 1963 COFO • 1964 Freedom Summer • MFDP and Democratic Convention

  7. Watts, 11 August 1965 • 50-80,000 inolved • 34 killed, 900 injured • 4,000 arrests • $35 M damage

  8. Newark, 1967 • Young boy injured during rioting • Riots 1966-7 in various US cities

  9. Detroit, 1967 – The Aftermath

  10. King on the Defensive • 1965 FBI leaked stories about his private life • Summer 1966 Chicago fiasco • 1967 Came out against the Vietnam War

  11. Memphis, April 4 • MLK supporting garbage worker’strike • Killed on balcony of hotel • Riots erupted in over 100 cities

  12. Black Power • Malcolm X • 1964 SNCC to Africa • Malcolm X killed 21 Feb 1965 • 1966 SNCC and CORE adopted Black Nationalism • 1966 Meredith march

  13. 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

  14. The Black Panthers • 1966 BPs founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale • Cleaver Soul on Ice (1968)

  15. Mexico, 1968

  16. ‘A long time coming,and a long time gone…’

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