29. Civil Rights Movement (1955-1960)
I) Events
a) Murder of Emmett Till-boy from Chicago
i) Whistle @ white women…murdered by women’s husband and brother
(1) Emmett=martyr
ii) Open-casket funeral…huge media coverage
iii) Mrs. Till & Mose Wright (uncle) spoke against whites
iv) Murders convicted not guilty…all white jury
b) Montgomery Bus Boycott (Dec.1, 1955)
i) Non-violent
ii) Rosa Parks-white section >SC integrating buses
c) Little Rock, Arkansas
i) Desegregation of schools-state vs. federal
(1) Nt’l Guard vs. U.S. Army
ii) “Little Rock 9”-good AA students
(1) Escorted by “101st Hall Monitors”(U.S. Air Force)
iii) 1st integrated school
d) Sit-ins-Greensboro, NC…Nashville, TN…big media… Purpose-be arrested
i) Jim Lawson non-violent workshop…rules on sitting, clothes etc
ii) Both black and whites worked together
e) Freedom Rides…integrate buses on state line
i) Washington D.C. >deep south
ii) SNCC-main org.
iii) JFK sends federal troops
f) March on Washington…250,000-300,000 b&w together
i) “I have a dream”
ii) No riots – fed gov’t expected chaos
g) Birmingham-“Bombingham”…AL
i) Media=big…spraying water
ii) Church bombing…4 kids killed
h) Mississippi Burning…shows S problems
i) Get AA to vote (3 guys…two white, one black, one Jew)…KKK kills them
ii) Kennedy passes-Voting Rights Act of 1965
(1) Verify 15th Amendment
i) Black Power Movement…Malcolm X founded ideology…ghetto-ised
i) Black panthers…stop being “victims”
ii) Olympics-black fists
II) People
a) Martin Luther King-minister from church…non-violent civil rights activist…killed 1968
b) JFK-35 pres…not elected as civil rights activist…brother Robert Attorney G. more active than JFK killed in 1963 (end of CRM)
c) Malcolm X-fighting back…Islam…black supremacy…big media…killed by Islams (blacks)
III) Phases – NAACP lawsuits, legislative branch won’t budge – senate filibuster
a) Go to courts – Brown v. Board, but not enforceable
b) Executive branch finally steps in Ike>Little Rock, Kennedy>Freedom Rides, Johnson>Civil Rights Act
i. Before governors and states had ruled, finally federal gov’t stops allowing South to have separate rules
IV) Cooperation – Early part, blacks and whites worked together in SNCC, CORE
a) Conflicts between conservative SCLC and NAACP, the big moneymakers and SNCC & CORE the actual activists
b) By late 1960s, Black Power mvmt emerges wanting nothing to do with white help
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