section 3 Flashcards
1
Q
What were urban problems?
A
- the economic position wasn’t improving
- focused on problems in chicago
- mayor Richard daley ordered the police to protect marchers to prevent violence
- proposed a program to clean slums and promote housing
2
Q
What was the Watts Riot?
A
- five day rebellion
- watts neighborhood
- cause was arrest of marquette frye
3
Q
What was Black Power?
A
- failure in chicago showed nonviolent protests did little to save economic problems
- after 1965 young African Americans turned away from MLK
- called for black power/physical defence & violence
4
Q
Who was Stokely Carmichael?
A
- american activist
- bronx highschool of science
- born in carribean
5
Q
Who was Malcolm X?
A
- symbol of the black power movement
- drifted into a life of crime & in 1946 was sent to prison for 6 yrs
6
Q
Explain MLK’s assassination
A
- went to Memphis to support a strike of African American sanitation workers
- April 14 1986 assassinated by a sniper
- after his death Congress passed the civil rights act of 1968
- MLK’s death marked the end of an era in US history
- civil rights act continued but lacked unity of purpose and vision
