Civil Rights

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Civil Rights

• 1960s

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Shift in Focus

• Urban problems
• Unemployment
• Laws changed attitudes didnt
• Low paying jobs
• Segregated neighborhoods
• Economic rights
• Assertive/aggressive methods

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Watts Riot 1965

• Watts 40th - Watts Renaissance 1965-2005
• Police brutality
• National Guard Police
• 1965-1968 Riots spread
• Detroit 1967 worst

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Watts Riot 1965
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Black Power

• Stokely Carmichael
• Leader of SNCC 1966

• Meant different things

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Black Power

• Physical self-defense or violence
• Control social, political, economic aspects of
  movement
• Pride in culture, African roots

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Nation of Islam

• Elijah Muhammad
• Black Muslims
• Black Nationalism
• Separate, form own government
• Self-sufficient, self-defense
• Malcolm X
• Brought attention to Nation of Islam

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Malcolm X

• Feb. 21, 1965

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Black Panthers

• Political party
• Urban poor
• Revolution necessary

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Black Panthers

• Arm themselves
• Confront white society
• Self-defense

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Poor Peoples Campaign

• March 1968 Sanitation workers strike
• SCLC
• economic advancement

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Martin Luther King Jr.

• April 4, 1968
• Memphis

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National Civil Rights Museum - About the Museum
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Poor Peoples Campaign

• Goal
• Billions to end poverty unemployment
• Lobby congress
• 1963 March on Washington
• May 14 until June 24, 1968

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Civil Rights Act 1968

• Outlaw discrimination
• Housing sales
• Rentals
• Justice Department to file lawsuits