Civil Rights 50s

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Civil Rights 50s 60s
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NAACP

• The National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People.
• Advance civil rights.
• Black voter registration.
• Legislative and legal maneuvering.
• Instrumental in Brown.

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Sit-in Movement

• Woolworths lunch counter, Montgomery, Alabama.
• The movement spread quickly.
• Boycott as weapon.
• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
• (SNCC). Southern black students. No
  segregation, equality, and voter registration.

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Birmingham, Alabama - 1960
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Why Birmingham?

• Largest almost exclusively segregated city in the
  South.
• Bus Boycott.
• Freedom Riders.
• Birmingham Bombing. Four small girls killed.
  The Klan goes to war.

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Women love hoods too!
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James Meridith and Ole Miss, 1962
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March on Washington

• March, 1963.
• I have a dream.
• 200,000 demonstrators in a peaceful march.

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1964 Civil Rights Act

• Gave the govt more powers of enforcement in
  school desegregation cases.
• Prohibited racial discrimination in all kinds of
  public accommodations and employment.

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Voter registration
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Black power

• Malcolm X.
• Movement away from Kings philosophy.
• Black Panthers.
• Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Stokely Carmicheal.