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Stokely Carmichael - "Black Power" - Seattle
Stokely was a "Trinidadian-American" black activist in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He grew up in the United States at age of eleven, he graduated from Howard University. He was in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of SNCC, (pronounced "snick") and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. -
Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka
It was a United States Supreme Court case were the Court said state laws having separate schools for black and white students was ''unconstitutional.'' -
Emmett Till
A young black man who was murdered for flirting with a white women. He was beat and his eyes were gouged out then he was shot. The men who killed him were not "indicted". -
Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott
Rosa got on a bus and sat in the white section and when someone ordered her to move he said no. -
The Formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Dr. King invited 60 black ministers to Ebenezer Church in Atlanta. Their goal was to form an organization to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the South. -
Little Rock, Arkansas - Central High School Integration
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People registered 9 black students at Little Rock Central High which used to be an all white school. The black students were abused by all the white students. The school was then under the protection of the U.S. army. -
Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's sit-in
Four Black Students sat down in a resturant and they were refused service. They were asked to leave but they stayed in their seats. After this it started a six long month peaceful protest. -
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Freedom Riders
The freedom riders were both black and white people that wanted to test the laws against segregation. The blacks sat in the white section of the bus and the whites sat in the black section. They were beat by people who were against desegregation. The freedom riders were arrested and unfairly put in jail. In the end this lead to the desegregation of buses. -
James Meredith, University of Mississippi
James was the first black student at the University of Mississippi. -
Martin Luther King Arrested, "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Martin was arrested for breaking Alabama’s law against "mass public demonstrations". When he was in jail he wrote a letter to plan a non-violent protest. -
Birmingham, Alabama Protests
Dogs and fire hoses were used to break up a protest lead by black students against segragation. -
"March on Washington"
The march started at the Washington Monument and ended at the Lincoln Memorial. This march is were Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech. There was around 200,000 to 300,000 people there. -
24th Amendment to the Constitution
Some Poll taxes appeared in the southern states after 'Reconstruction' as a measure to prevent African Americans from voting, and had been held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1937. This was figured to be violating the 15th Amendment, which stated that voting not be limited by "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Malcom X Shot
He was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. He was a courageous canidate for the rights of blacks, a man who charged white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against African Americans. Some accused him of "preaching racism, black supremacy, and violence." He was known as one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. -
Civil Right Act 1964
It was an act that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. It terminated unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at work and by facilities in public. At first the power given to enforce the act was weak, but were more powerful later on. -
Voting Rights March "Bloody Sunday"
Bloody Sumday started with about 500 activists that gathered to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to protest. They protested the denial of voting rights to blacks in the state. But they didn’t make it. They were attacked by state and local police, they were cheered on by crowds of white people and became an assault so brutal that it has come to be known as Bloody Sunday. Seventeen people were hospitalized. -
Voting Rights Act
This Act prohibite states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color." More specific, Congress wanted the Act to outlaw the practice of needing qualified voters to pass literacy tests in order to register to vote. This principal means "Southern states had prevented African Americans from exercising the franchise." -
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Watts Riots
This event was otherwise known as Watts Rebellion took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in August. It was a six-day riot t resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and $40 million in property damage. It started with a young African American on a motorcycle that was pulled over and arrested by Lee W. Minikus, a white California Highway Patrolman, for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. And a crowd gathered and a riot started/ -
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Formation of the black panthers
They were an African-American revolutionary socialist organization in the United States. They "achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s." They were founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale on October 15, 1966, they set out for the protection of African-American neighborhoods from police brutality. -
Martin Luther King Assassination
He got death threats constantly with his popularity of the civil rights movement. With these threats, he confronted death constantly, making it a central part of his everyday. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05PM. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested in London at Heathrow Airport,and was charged with the crime. -
Civil Rights Act 1968
This act provided equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin. The Act was signed during Martin Luther King's assassination riots by President Lyndon B. Johnson. "An act to prescribe penalties for certain acts of violence or intimidation, and for other purposes." -
Democratic National Convention - "The Whole World is Watching"
This convention is a presidential nominating held every four years.This one was known as an iconic chant by anti-war demonstrators outside the Chicago Hilton Hotel during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The many conflicts of the sixties were exemplified in the events of the 1968 Democratic Convention, the civil disturbances and the subsequent Chicago 8 Trial.
