HIS 142 1st Edition Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture I. 1960sII. Vietnam WarOutline of Current Lecture I. The Black Freedom StruggleII. Civil Rights ActIII. JFKCurrent LectureI. The Black Freedom StruggleThe Black Freedom Struggle inspired and motivated many people later on to try and make changes (gays, lesbians, women, etc.). African Americans pushed their way through during the 1950s and 1960s and were finding new strategies and techniques to get noticed and to have their voices heard. In 1954, Brown vs. the Board of Education occurred. In December 1955, Rose Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery,Alabama and a yearlong boycott of public busses was started. During the bus boycott (1955-1956), Martin Luther King emerged as a leader. In February of 1960, four men who were attended a university in North Carolina asked for service at the lunch counter, knowing they would get denied because they were black. When they were denied, that sat at a table and waited to be served. Other people started doing the same thing at different places throughout the country. This event helped the creation of SNCC- the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. This committee pushed racial changes. The people who were part of the population that had been most discriminated were finding a way to break through, resist, and organize to change the country’s views on race. The Black Freedom Struggle also provided a window for Americans to look at their society through and see all of the ways people have been discriminated in their country.II. The Civil Rights ActIn 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed. The Civil Rights Act was essentially the last major piece of legislation that dismantled the legal basis of Jim Crowe. Although African Americans were legally allowed to have rights now (they could vote and could not be discriminated against), they still had to deal with decades of economic exclusions, being seen as criminal, less intelligent, less hardworking and they also had to deal with povertyThese 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.and police brutality. Although the Civil Rights Act was passed, the backlash from old problems and things the African Americans still had to deal with created new conflicts.III. JFKJohn F. Kennedy did not care about civil rights. The only thing he cared about was the fact that it was making him and the United States look