Were Not Gonna Wait Anymore

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Were Not Gonna Wait Anymore!

• The Triumph of the Civil Rights Movement in
  America

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Emmett Till

• In August 1955, a young black teenager from
  Chicago named Emmett Till was sent to stay with
  family in Mississippi
• While visiting a local grocery store, Till
  whistled at and flirted with a white woman

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Emmett Till

• Three days later, Tills mutilated body was
  pulled from the Tallahatchie River
• He had been brutally beaten, one eye had been
  gouged out, and he had been shot
• Tills mother Mamie insisted on an open-casket
  funeral

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Southern Manifesto

• We regard the decisions of the Supreme Court in
  the school cases as a clear abuse of judicial
  power. It climaxes a trend in the Federal
  Judiciary undertaking to legislate, in derogation
  of the authority of Congress, and to encroach
  upon the reserved rights of the States and the
  people
• 83 Southern members of Congress presented their
  manifesto in March 1956
• Two of the three congressmen from North Carolina
  who refused to sign the bill were defeated in the
  Democratic primary the following May

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2nd Great Black Migration

• Of the 15 million blacks in the United States in
  1950, about 52 were living in metropolitan areas
• 30 years later in 1980, 81 of our countrys
  African-Americans were living in cities

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Nation of Islam
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National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)

• Began meetings as the National Negro Committee in
  1909
• Future justice Thurgood Marshall argued for NAACP
  in Brown v. Board of Ed
• Provided leadership for 1955 Montgomery Bus
  Boycott

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Founded in January 1957
• Focused on non-violent civil disobedience
• SCLC was still nowhere near as radical as other
  organizations would become

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• SNCC began with an 800 grant from the SCLC
• Stokely Carmichael felt black leaders were not
  pressing hard enough
• Insisted that blacks must think in terms of
  black power

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Sit-Ins
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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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1963 March on Washington
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Medgar Evers

• On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated just
  after pulling into his driveway
• His death was mourned nationally, he was buried
  in Arlington National Cemetery

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16th Street Baptist Church

• Four young black girls were killed when a bomb
  exploded outside the 16th Street Baptist Church
• Bobby Frank Cherry was charged with helping a
  group of Klansmen plant the bomb

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Freedom Summer of 1964

• Program was aimed at Mississippi, where the
  African American population exceeded 45, and
  only 5 voted
• Volunteers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and
  James Chaney were abducted and killed

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March on Selma

• Occurred at the Edmund Pettus Bridge
• On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil
  rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S.
  Route 80
• Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., ruled for
  the protestors

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Watts Riots

• 34 people were killed, 1,100 people were injured,
  4,000 people were arrested, and an estimated 100
  million in damage was caused