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Mind Map by Dominic Ramsay, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Dominic Ramsay
almost 11 years ago
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Radical Civil Rights
- Moderate Failures
- MLK did not appeal to all African
Americans. He was a southerner and
was viewed as someone from the black
elite (due to his status as a Baptist
Minister)
- This meant working
Class Black people
were able to more
easily identify with
Malcolm X
- Many people only followed MLK's strategy for Pragmatic
purposes (i.e. Hosea Williams) and thus, when it appeared to
have acheived all it could, many followers dropped the principle
- This meant working
Class Black people
were able to more
easily identify with
Malcolm X
- King failed to realise how racist working class
Northern White People were until his campaign
moved north. This was best shown when MLK took
the SCLC to Detroit and was met with hostility
- The White Libearl who'd initially supported him now labbeled his actions 'provactive' and 'irresponsible'
- The White Libearl who'd initially supported him now labbeled his actions 'provactive' and 'irresponsible'
- In 1948, Black
unemployment
was at a low of
5.9%. However by
1954, almost 10%
of blacks were
jobless, double the
rate amongst
whites and it would
remain this way
throughout the
1960’s
- After the March through Chicago had forced the City Mayor to accept a 'summit agreement' (as the march had evoked similar violent scenes as seen int
he South), he quietly shelved the agreeement later on.
- They were used to fighting one dimensional villains like ‘Bull’ Connor and Jim Clark but found Mayor Daley a subtle, skilful politician who opposed the Civil Rights Movement with kind words as opposed to violence
- They were used to fighting one dimensional villains like ‘Bull’ Connor and Jim Clark but found Mayor Daley a subtle, skilful politician who opposed the Civil Rights Movement with kind words as opposed to violence
- Black Church lacked the prestige it commanded in the South
- Number of white people in the North who believed that the Johnson
administration was pushing integration ‘to fast’ grew from 28% in April, 1965 to
36% in August 1965 (after Watts) and to 52% in September, 1966
- MLK did not appeal to all African
Americans. He was a southerner and
was viewed as someone from the black
elite (due to his status as a Baptist
Minister)
- Aims
- Rejected the idea of integration, and by extensionm,
rejected the aims of the original Civil Rights
Movement
- Does not mean, that his ideas were bad for Civil Rights as it gave many African Americans
the pride and confidence to work for change.
- Does not mean, that his ideas were bad for Civil Rights as it gave many African Americans
the pride and confidence to work for change.
- Rejected the idea of integration, and by extensionm,
rejected the aims of the original Civil Rights
Movement
- Radical Success
- Radicalism increases as the period goes on
- Early Radical Leader: Marcus Garvey
- Early Radical Leader: Marcus Garvey
- Radicalism increases as the period goes on
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