Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Civil Rights 1963-72
- Malcolm X
- Unlike MLK, had radical
views that Blacks and
Whites couldn't live in
harmony
- 1952- joined Nation of Islam
- 1964- split from NOI
and went to Mecca
- Returned and set up
Organistaion of
Afro-American Unity
- Was shot in 1965 by a member of NOI
- Black Panthers and power
- Carmichael was replaced as head
of SNCC by radical Brown in 1967
- CORE also elected more radical
leaders- driven by the apartheid
protests in Africa
- Panthers often involved in
confrontation with police-
1969, 28 members shot
- Their violent methods alienated
many Black Americans- only had
5000 members at their peak
- Helped move civil rights
protests North into cities
like NYC and California
- Martin Luther King
- Was present
when Johnson
signed in Civil
Rights Bill in 1964
- 1965- Selma to Montgomery march,
black people attacked by police- on TV
= many people shocked -> Johnson
passed Voting Rights Act.
- Chicago Campaign to end
housing discrimination
1966, failure- too much
white resistance
- Shot in 1968- seen as
unofficial leader of Civil
Rights Movement
- Cesar Chavez and the Chicano Movement
- United Farmworkers' Union
fought for better pay+
conditions for Hispanics
- 1965 California
Grape Strike
lasted 5 years
- Registered
100,000
Hispanic voters
- By 1970's Chicano Movement
had begun to splinter into
moderate and radical factions