U.S. History II, Civil Rights Movement of 1960’s, essay notes
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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It outlawed segregation in any public accommodations. LBJ.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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This stopped discrimination in employment. LBJ, 1964.
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February 1960
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Four black college freshman in Greensboro North Carolina sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter and demanded service. They were refused and would not leave, this movement grew getting media attention.
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April 1960
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Black and white students formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. There were sit-ins, kneel-ins, wade-ins.
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May 1961
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The Congress of Racial Equality, core, sent a group of black and white Freedom Riders on buses to the south to test a federal court ruling.
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1962
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James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi and was blocked from attending the governor Ross Barnett. Attorney general Robert Kennedy sent federal marshals but they were stopped by mom from performing their duties. President Kennedy sent in federal troops to get Meredith registered.
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June 1962
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Medgar Evers, an official of the Mississippi NAACP, was assassinated. James Meredith was also shot and killed in 1966.
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Eugene Bull Connor
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Birmingham Alabama Police Commissioner that turned his men, dogs, teargas, cattle prods, and fire hoses on non-violent demonstrators. Media captured event.
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August 3rd, 1963
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Kings campaign culminated with his march on Washington with over 200,000 Americans of all colors advocating government action for civil rights.
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1963 Kennedy
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He asks for civil rights bill in this year but it gets stuck in Congress, Southern Democrats stop it.
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Selma to Montgomery
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After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, King tried to register more black voters in the south which led to March over the Alabama River. State troopers, some on horseback, violently dispersed the peaceful protesters with clubs in teargas, killing two, this was shown on TV.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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The Montgomery event spurred the passage of this Act in 1965 which allowed federal examiners to register voters and suspended literacy tests and other devices used to disenfranchise voters.
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1964 24th amendment is ratified
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This prohibited poll taxes in federal elections comma in 1966 the Supreme Court ruled that states could not use the poll tax for state election.
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1966
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Black voter registration rose 28 percent and African Americans soon enter Congress from minority districts in the south.
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1964 to 1969
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There were 300 race riots during this time frame, some African Americans were discontent still as they were not treated fairly and they wanted equality to change more quickly. They were tired of the slow process.
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Black Panthers
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Advocated black nationalism, Black Power, black is beautiful - rejecting integration. Stokely Carmichael & H rap Brown. Many of their leaders use violence.
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Malcolm X
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He was part of the black Muslims departing from traditional Islam. He advocated rights by any means necessary.
