Key Terms Black Panther Party Robert F Williams de facto segregation Freedom Summer I Voting Rights A Selma Voting Rights march 1 Mississippi racial segregation and hatred were embedded here more than any other state 2 Movement focuses on MI because if it can work there it can work anywhere 3 Freedom Summer volunteers from the North to work on voting rights and registration and literacy a Want to get the media involved b Most Black Mississippians can t read write c Volunteers are privileged Northerners college kids to help at Freedom Summer School d Movement is gambling that if these privileged northerners are put in jail beat up for this they will get media coverage e Want to create a new political party MFDP to represent Black Mississippians 2 Blockbusting real estate agent buys up entire block of whites houses when a black family is moving into neighborhood f 3 Freedom Summer volunteers go missing g Leads the national news in stories B Voting Rights Act of 1965 1 Before this act only 4 of Blacks are registered to vote in the South 2 After this act almost 50 register II Desegregation A Boston Desegregation 1974 1 An attempt to integrate the schools through forced bussing 2 White kids go to Black schools Blacks go to Whites 3 Boston Busing Riot C Northerners are just as angry about segregation as South D De facto segregation segregation just happened not by any law E Chicago SLC Campaign 1 MLK believes nonviolence will work to fix this just like it worked in South then sells houses to black families for much more expensive 3 MLK was attacked in Chicago March 1965 F King is able to draw attention to the problem but not make changes 1 Solution must be about more than changing the law it has to be about economics G Poor People s Campaign H Black power movement 2 Black Panthers 1 Build programs in our own communities to strengthen them a Armed self defense nonviolence didn t work in cities b Their solution is liberation and empowerment of Blacks in their own communities c Encourage blacks to spend money at black businesses d Help poor blacks giving them food transportation legal clinics medical clinics etc cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127
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