HIST 2112 1ST Edition Lecture 23 Outline of Last Lecture I Movement in the Legal System II 1955 Emmett Till III Rosa Parks IV Rev Martin Luther King Jr V 1956 Massive Resistance VI 1957 Little Rock Arkansas School Integration VII 1957 SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference VIII Change in Strategy IX 1960 New Orleans X 1961 Atlanta XI 1961 UGA Integration XII 1962 James Meredith XIII 1963 George C Wallace XIV Bull Connor XV More Controversy XVI 1963 March on Washington XVII 1964 Freedom Summer Outline of Current Lecture XVIII Two Major Accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement XIX 1965 Watts later Detroit Newark etc XX 1966 Stokely Carmichael XXI 1968 MLK assassinated XXII 1948 Dixiecrats Current Lecture Backlash from Civil Rights Movement Two Major Accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Act of 1964 Like Civil Rights Act of 1866 However it reached into the workplace These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute One of the opponents of the act a southern Democrat thought that he would kill the bill that by adding that it would forbade discrimination by race and sex in the workplace However Congress still passed it Bill did not focus on voter discrimination though Lyndon B Johnson gets act passed Terrible scenes from Birmingham helped get the Act passed March 1965 Selma Alabama Jim Clarke thought beating away black voters would work The scene was broadcasted and 25 000 Americans went to Alabama to march from Selma to Montgomery Event leads to Voting Rights Acts of 1965 o Administrators went to oversee voting o Dramatic increase in black voters o Places still could evade the Act if they showed no denial on the basis of discrimination 1965 Watts later Detroit Newark etc Within a few days of Voting Rights Act passage major cities have huge outbreaks of violence in inner city ghettos Major northern cities have the largest race imbalance Triggers outrage among white Americans who supported Civil Rights Act Further fueled by several black Leaders who reject MLK s beliefs of nonviolence Shift towards more separatists philosophy Malcolm X o Makes it clear that blacks and whites are enemies o He is a black Muslim and a striking role model o The most articulate spokesman for black power o Originally the chief disciple of Elijah Muhammad Malcolm X broke away from him and founded his own organization committed to establishing relations between African Americans and the nonwhite peoples of the world o Near the end of his life he began to preach a biracial message of social change o In 1964 he was assassinated by members of a rival group of black Muslims 1966 Stokely Carmichael Movement has morphed into a black only organization in the fear of whites cannot be trusted Beginning of Black Power A more militant form of protest for civil rights that originated in urban communities where nonviolent tactics were less effective than in the South Black power encouraged African Americans to take pride in their racial heritage and forced black leaders and organizations to focus attention on the plight of poor inner city blacks 1968 MLK assassinated MLK was concerned with the economic welfare of blacks He was rejected by leaders like Malcolm X Stokely Carmichael White Backlash Majority of white Americans intended black and whit relations to be equalized however their support seems to now be rejected and creates an atmosphere of a divided culture about more things than just race Vietnam poverty etc 1948 Dixiecrats Deep South delegates who walked out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention in protest of the party s support for civil rights legislation and later formed the States Rights Dixiecrat party which nominated Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president Carried four southern states in 1948 election however they were listed as the only democratic option for those states Goldwater Revolution 1964