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Civil Rights After 1964

Civil Rights After 1964. Black Power Movement. Rejected Dr. King’s slow-paced nonviolence & rejected white cooperation Stokely Carmichael expels whites from S.N.C.C. Black Power philosophy influenced by Malcolm X. Stokely Carmichael. Malcolm X. Converted to Nation of Islam in jail

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Civil Rights After 1964

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  1. Civil Rights After 1964

  2. Black Power Movement • Rejected Dr. King’s slow-paced nonviolence & rejected white cooperation • Stokely Carmichael expels whites from S.N.C.C. • Black Power philosophy influenced by Malcolm X Stokely Carmichael

  3. Malcolm X • Converted to Nation of Islam in jail • Based in the Northern U.S. • Broke with Elijah Muhammad upon return from Mecca • Killed February 21, 1965

  4. Black Panthers • Founded in California, 1966

  5. Dr. King’s Assassination • Assassinated in Memphis, April 4, 1968

  6. Urban Riots, 1965 – 1970 • Civil Rights Movement in the South raised expectations in Northern cities • 1964 = Harlem, Rochester, Jersey City, Philadelphia • 1965 = Watt’s Riot lasts 6 days, 34 dead, $40 million in damages • 1966 = Chicago, Milwaukee, SF, Cleveland, Dayton • TOTAL = 250 deaths, 10,000 injuries, 60,000 arrests

  7. Chicano Civil Rights Movement • Cesar Chavez organized migrant farm workers into Unions • 5 million migrant farm workers in U.S. in 1960s • 1935 National Labor Relations Act did not allow farm workers to join Unions • No minimum wage, no Social Security benefits • Chavez used King and Gandhi’s nonviolence, hunger strikes

  8. Grape Boycott • 1962: Chavez forms National Farm Workers/United Farm Workers • 1965: First boycott of California’s grapes • National attention to poor living conditions • Chavez went on 25 day hunger strike • 5 year boycott ends with U.F.W. contract in 1970

  9. The Brown Berets • March 1968: 10,000 students walked out of L.A high schools to protests poor education quality • “Brown Berets” student group influenced Chicano Studies, Puerto Rican Studies departments in colleges • Women discouraged from participating

  10. The American Indian Movement • 1960s & 1970s = 70% of Indians located on reservations • 1968 = (AIM) American Indian Movement founded to create economic opportunities on reservations & stop police harassment

  11. Capture of Alcatraz Island, 1969 • 1969 = 78 AIM members captured former federal prison Alcatraz Island • Treaty stated abandoned federal land belonged to American Indians • Occupation lasted 1.5 years until 1971

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