04 16 2015 History Reminders Bayard Rustin Final Exam Thursday May 14th at 10 30 12 30 Chapter Quizzes and online reading assignments Due May 9th SETE available staring Monday Quaker born in Penn he was a pacifist Attended West Chester State college CORE was not a main founder but help get the founders together March on Washington Montgomery Bus Boycott Gay Man he had to be in the background of things because he was Joined communist party in 1936 and dropped out of it in 1941 gay March on Washington 1963 Full name March on Washington for Jobs Freedom August 28th 1963 Bayard Rustin MLK s I Have a Dream speech 200 000 to 500 000 people Texas Trip Fundraising Support for Civil Rights Bill Support for NASA San Antonio Fort Worth Dallas Motorcade Love Field Trade Mart Back to Love Field Assassination Kennedy Dead Abraham Zapruder Lyndon Baines Johnson Pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital 1pm Swore into office Aboard Air Force One Judge Sarah T Hughes first women to swear a president into office Lee Harvey Oswald Ex Marine Worked at Texas School Book Depository Went to his boarding house in Oakcliff Oswald Killed On live TV Jack Ruby Mafia connections Cuba connections JFK s Funeral Arlington National Cemetery Assassin s Assassin Guilty of capital murder Died in jail of cancer Conspiracy Mafia Cuba Soviets Warren Commission Lyndon Baines Johnson Became President Lacked Kennedy s charisma Idealistic ruthless crude compassionate Idol FDR LBJ Master Politician Arm twisting Congress was in stalemate Delay and stultification First Address to Congress November 27th 1963 Make JFK a martyr Civil Rights Act of 1964 Howard W Smith o Added the word sex Outlawed segregation in all public places Freedom Election Mock Elections 1963 80 000 voted in the Freedom Election 62 6 7 of African Americans registered They don t want to vote Freedom Summer Summer 1964 SNCC CORE NAACP and SCLC Registered Blacks to Vote in Mississippi Ten Week Project to help prepare them Death in Mississippi Philadelphia Mississippi June 21 1964 black o Andrew Goodman shot at point blank and buried white o James Chaney beaten and the shot at a distance and buried Fannie Lou Hamer o Michael Schwerner shot at point blank and buried white Bodies found underneath an earthen dam August 4th 1964 Local leader in Mississippi during Freedom Summer Mound Bayou MS o Sunflower County Sharecropper tried to register to vote but was then kicked out of her house she finally was able to register to vote Sterilized w o consent Powerful Speaker Well known for singing gospel songs Died March 14th 1977 at 59 of heart failure Tireless worker Selma March 7th 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery along Highway 80 500 to 600 marchers headed east Lead by John Lewis of SNCC and Rev Hosea Made it out of the city and over the bridge and then ran into the wall of troopers Bloody Sunday Come forward in full riot gear and commenced the beating Men on horse back came at them 17 marchers were hospitalized A bunch of others were wounded Voting Rights Act of 1965 March 15th 1965 Established Federal Oversight of Elections Administration States with a history of discriminatory voting practices could not change voting laws with out prior approval from the Department of Justice The voting Rights Act of 1965 passed 25 year extension in 2006 The 15th amendment with teeth In 2011 the supreme court gutted it 04 16 2015 04 16 2015
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