Expansion of Protest Flashcards
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Freedom Summers
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- CORE, SNCC and NAACP launch campaign to register AA voters in the south.
2
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Selma to Montgomery (4)
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- Confront failure to allow AA to vote in Alabama
- Aim was to force desegregation
- Selma chosen as a target as violence was expected that would draw media attention
- 2% of AA appeared on the voting roll
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Bloody Sunday (3)
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- Jimmie Lee Jackson killed in Feb 1965
- March on 7 March staged across Edmund Pettus bridge with John Lewis and was met by troopers
- Violence erupted and media coverage one again showed police brutality
- Two days later, Turnaround Tuesday led by MLK with 2000 people.
- James Reeb, minister, killed by KKK
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Results of Selma (3)
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- March 21, 1965: Brown Chapel assembly for the march on Selma
- 4 days later, 250,000 people had joined the marchers for the final rally at the Montgomery state Capitol.
- LBJ passes the Voting Rights Act
5
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Voting Rights Act
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- No more voter discrimination
- 0 Federal examiners put in place to register voters
- Federal law could override state law
6
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Watts Riots
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- August 1965 - $40 million in property damage and 34 dead with 1000 injured.
- TEstimony to inequality and poverty
- Looting occurred at the end
- Showed that legislative change didn’t = de facto change
- Inspired federal government to assist but most of the money was absorbed by Vietnam
7
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March Against Fear
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- 1966 James Meredith marches from Memphis to Jackson to promote black voter registration
- Violence broke out between civil rights groups and police
8
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Vietnam
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- Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court in 1967
- King takes an anti-Vietnam stance, ironic that soldiers were not respected at home but fought for “democracy”
9
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Assassination of MLK
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- Shot on April 4, 1968
- Holy Week Uprising occurred across US
- Rekindled the CRA of 1968 which included the Fair Housing Act which ended housing discrimination
- White flight occurred in cities and led to suburbanisation across the US.
