I. Civil Rights: Leaders

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I. Civil Rights Leaders Strategies

• 1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• a. Southern Christian Leadership Committee
  (SCLC)
• -Civil Disobedience M. Ghandi
• -Nonviolent resistance
• -The Selma March
• -boost voting rights
• -24th Amendment-outlaw poll
  tax
• b. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  (SNCC)
• c. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
• -Sit-ins -Freedom Rides
• d. Assassinated 4/4/1968
• 2. Malcolm X
• a. Nation of Islam
• -Black Nationalism
• -complete separation form the white
  man

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I. Leaders Strategies

• 3. Stokely Carmichael
• a. SNCC shifts gears
• -From Civil Disobedience M. Ghandi
• -To Black Power
• 4. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
• a. Government reparations
• -rebuild ghettos
• -power flows from the barrel of a
  gun
• 5. Robert F. Kennedy
• a. Attorney General under J.F.K.
• -Major Civil Rights supporter
• b. Assassinated 6/5/1968