The Black Power movement: Martin Luther King and Malcom X Flashcards
What were 2 catalysts for the social protest in the 60s?
-escalating war in Vietnam
-Civil Rights movement
What was a negative about the creation of the organisations that were created to help promote the goals of racial justice and equality?
-despite progress in the creation of the organisations it was slow
What groups endorsed peaceful methods and believed what?
-NAACP
-CORE
-MLK’s SCLC
-believed change could be affected by working around the established system
What groups endorsed violent methods and believed what?
-Black Panthers
-the Nation of Islam
-the Black Nationalist Movement
-advocated retaliatory violence and a separation of the races
-there were numerous marches, rallies, strikes, riots, and violent confrontations with the police
What was the impact of violence?
-national leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X would be assassinated
-violence would claim the lives of young and old, and rigged all-white juries mocked justice in cases involving crimes perpetrated by whites against African Americans
What places were still segregated during the early 60s?
-restaurants
-hotels
-night clubs
-public facilities
-the school systems
What things were less available compared to the white majority?
-educational and job opportunities for minorities were far below those available to the white majority
Who did AAs rely on?
-White Americans due to AAs being in the minority
Who was Martin Luther King?
-was president of the SCLC and known as the most influential and well known of the Black leaders that emerged in the 60s
What was Martin Luther King’s methods of protest?
-he and his followers organised numerous marches, rallies, and strikes to call attention to the systematic discrimination against minorities that was endemic in American society
-non violent confrontation with the authorities and a prodding of the conscience of the white majority to effect social change
What was Martin Luther King’s impact on JFK and LBJ?
-he convinced President Kennedy and later President Johnson to push for legislation to end discrimination and was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1964
What happened to Martin Luther King?
-on April 4th 1968 King was assassinated in Memphis while there to organise a garbage workers strike
What was Malcom X’s education like?
-began his real education in a prison library when he was serving time for robbery
What happened when Malcom X was released from prison?
-when he was released he joined the Nation of Islam who’s leader Elijah Muhammad preached that the black race was superior to the white->white race was inherently evil and that total separation was the only way to achieve racial equality
What was Malcom X’s popularity like?
-he rose quickly through the ranks, attracting numerous converts with his fiery oratory skills, organisational abilities, and tireless work
