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1960’s Civil Rights

1960’s Civil Rights. MLK. When we talk about Civil Rights, what springs to mind?. Brown v. Board. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal. The Little Rock Nine. Montgomery Bus Boycott. Strategies. Civil Disobedience Sit-ins

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1960’s Civil Rights

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  1. 1960’s Civil Rights

  2. MLK • When we talk about Civil Rights, what springs to mind?

  3. Brown v. Board • Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson • Separate but equal

  4. The Little Rock Nine

  5. Montgomery Bus Boycott

  6. Strategies • Civil Disobedience • Sit-ins • Became prominent in 1960 at segregated lunch counters • Freedom Riders • Most famously in 1961

  7. Picking Fights • Civil Rights activists in the line of MLK learned to choose their fights carefully: • Picked places where injustice was obvious • Picked places where white leaders were caricatures whose actions were reliably brutal • Used a mixture of economic and media pressure to force federal then local government to change

  8. James Meredith • Forced Ole Miss to integrate in 1962

  9. The Albany Campaign • Albany, Georgia 1962 • Non-violent campaign to end segregation in the city • Police Chief Pritchett • Met non-violence with non-violence • Seen as a defeat at the time, however, the city removed all segregation statues in 1963.

  10. Birmingham, 1963 • Bull Conner • Ordered attack dogs and fire hoses to break up marches • MLK’s jailing during this time led to his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.

  11. Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Forbade segregation in hotels, restaurants, theaters and other public places • Outlawed discrimination by employers and labor unions • Took the tragedies in Birmingham to pass it through Congress

  12. Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Mandated that federal authorities take over voting registration in areas where discrimination happened.

  13. Civil Rights Act of 1968 • Fair housing bill that tried to ban discrimination in the sale and rental of housing • Took the death of MLK to get enough support to pass it through Congress

  14. It wasn’t all Non-Violent • Nation of Islam • Black Panthers • Race Riots

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