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USA Civil Rights C2 (Protest, Progress and Radicalisation) Flashcards

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Importance of Greensboro Sit Ins

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  • started with 4 students ended up with 300
  • national
  • peaceful
  • people inspired
  • white people joined i
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Importance of Freedom Riders

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  • people inspired
  • publicity
  • numbers grew
  • white people joined in
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Freedom Riders

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  • people took long bus journeys to Deep South to see segregation
  • caused change bus desegregated in the south
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James Meredith University of Mississippi

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  • application rejected
  • Supreme Court allowed him to join
  • riots
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What happened in response of James Meredith?

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  • SNCC and NAACP set up more marches, boycotts and protests in Albany, Georgia
  • MLK joined for new strategies
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What Happened at Birmingham, Alabama 1963

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  • MLK March
  • lots of violence and black arrests
  • Kennedy “ashamed” and “sick” of the actions from white people
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3 important factors of March of Washington

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Size- broadcast on national television
King’s speech- more support and showed how he was leader
Crowd- black and white people together

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What was Freedom Summer?

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  • black people could vote, not registered

- sign up for campaigns in projects in black communities

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3 Successes of Freedom Summer

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  • included all races
  • helped them register
  • money from white college students
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3 Failures of Freedom Summers

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  • KKK members opposing
  • burned black churches and homes
  • only 1600 of 17000 black people registered
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Key events of Selma, Alabama

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  • only 1% of black people could vote
  • MLK led peaceful march that was attacked by police
  • publicity and sympathy
  • Johnson sent troops to protect
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Civil Rights Act 1964 (key points of improvement)

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  • stop discrimination in voting, public spaces and jobs (equal opportunity)
  • enforce desegregation and remove funding for schools that don’t follow this
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Civil Rights Act 1964 (limitations)

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  • still difficult to vote in states
  • opportunity in council was limited as limited staff
  • deep south found ways around desegregation
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Voting Rights Act 1965 (success)

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Stopped black people being denied their right to vote

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Voting Rights Acr 1965 (limitations)

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  • not that many signed up to vote

- slow process

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Who was Malcom x?

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  • originally speaking for Nation of Islam
  • became a civil rights leader non-peaceful approach
  • assassinated by NOI
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Black Power Movement (Political)

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  • equality with white politicians
  • people focused more on Vietnam
  • acts didn’t solve desegregation
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Black Power Movement (Economic)

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  • occupied construction sites to enforce jobs

- also focused on poverty and unemployment

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Black Power Movement (Cultural)

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  • proud of race
  • defend themselves
  • ghetto conditions worsen
  • price integration too high
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Who was Stokely Carmichael?

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  • set up Lowndes Country Freedom Organisation as a black government party
  • more violent approach
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Significance of 1968 Mexico Olympics

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  • Tommie Smith and John Carlos refused to look at flag and did black power salute
  • very powerful/ inspired others
  • controversial but showed problems
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3 key features of Black Panthers

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  • wanted to end police brutality
  • they were all about community
  • woman vocal
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Positives and Negatives of Black Panthers

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Positives- made changes at local scale and helped improve ghetto conditions
Negatives- some panthers were arrested for robberies which funded the group

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5 Long Term causes of Riots

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  • police discrimination
  • Discrimination or white officials
  • Unemployment
  • Poverty
  • Poor education
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What were the 5 main criticisms of the Kerner Report?

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  • police
  • treatment in ghettos
  • use of federal money (too much on police)
  • criticism of how media depicted the riots
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What were the 4 main recommendations of the Kerner Report?

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  • white officials to help black people
  • police protect
  • less force by police
  • not have racial division
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3 reasons for King’s campaign in the North

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  • Rents too high
  • overcrowding as not enough houses
  • Discrimination in public services
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3 Successes of MLK campaign in the north

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  • peaceful agreement about fair house violence
  • black people found jobs
  • organised
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3 failures of MLK campaign in the north

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  • violence continued
  • mayor ignored agreement
  • Johnson and MLK relation strained due to Vietnam
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2 Short Term effect of MLK’s death

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  • rioting and deaths

- poor people campaign went ahead but shut down

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5 long term effects of MLK’s death

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  • civil rights lost members
  • white people thoughts battle was won
  • death accelerated
  • SNCC changed ‘n’ to national from non-violent
  • conflict increased
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What happened after 1969?

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  • protests split up
  • small scale protests
  • focused turned to Vietnam
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3 changes Nixon made for the civil rights

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  • funding/ trading for black businesses
  • ‘affirmative action’ black people got jobs ahead of others
  • more black officials in the white house

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