Civil rights 1963-70
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- Created on: 28-05-14 16:27
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- KT3 Civil rigths 1963-70 (violent protest)
- Changing views
- People began to favour violent protests
- Lack of progress became fustrating
- Birmingham
- Bull Connor- violent methods on inncent people
- MLK led the protest with thousands of children
- Brought World wide attention to the CRM
- 3rd April 1963- NAACP organised a protest
- March on Wahington
- 250-500,000 marchers putting pressure on the governement.
- 'I have a dream' speech
- World wide attention
- Kennedy
- He was killed before the law was passed
- Drafted the CR bill
- Won power due to the Black vote
- Landmark Laws
- 6th August 1965- Voting Registration Act- 1 voting test for the whole country
- 2nd July 1964- Civil Rights Act- Banned discrimintation
- Freedom Summer 1964
- Volunteers were killed for their help
- White people coached Black voters to pass registration tests
- 80 beatings, 6 deaths, 35 shootings, 60 homes bombed, 1000 arrests
- Malcom X
- Created the New York Mosque inc.
- Black Muslim leader believed in violence
- Shot dead during a speech 1965 aged 39
- Black Power Movement
- Black Panthers- military group
- Believed in violence and improving Blac social conditions
- Assasination of MLK
- Riots took place everywhere even in the North
- Killed 4/4/68 shot by a KKK member
- Changing views
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