1960’s civil rights
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1960’s Civil Rights. MLK. When we talk about Civil Rights, what springs to mind?. Brown v. Board. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson Separate but equal. The Little Rock Nine. Montgomery Bus Boycott. Strategies. Civil Disobedience Sit-ins - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
1960’s Civil Rights
MLK• When we talk about Civil Rights, what springs to mind?
Brown v. Board
• Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson– Separate but equal
The Little Rock Nine
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Strategies
• Civil Disobedience
• Sit-ins– Became prominent in 1960 at segregated lunch
counters
• Freedom Riders– Most famously in 1961
Picking Fights
• Civil Rights activists in the line of MLK learned to choose their fights carefully:– Picked places where injustice was obvious– Picked places where white leaders were
caricatures whose actions were reliably brutal– Used a mixture of economic and media pressure
to force federal then local government to change
James Meredith
• Forced Ole Miss to integrate in 1962
The Albany Campaign
• Albany, Georgia 1962– Non-violent campaign to end
segregation in the city• Police Chief Pritchett– Met non-violence with non-
violence• Seen as a defeat at the time,
however, the city removed all segregation statues in 1963.
Birmingham, 1963• Bull Conner– Ordered attack dogs and fire
hoses to break up marches– MLK’s jailing during this time
led to his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Forbade segregation in hotels, restaurants, theaters and other public places
• Outlawed discrimination by employers and labor unions– Took the tragedies in Birmingham to pass it
through Congress
Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Mandated that federal authorities take over voting registration in areas where discrimination happened.
Civil Rights Act of 1968
• Fair housing bill that tried to ban discrimination in the sale and rental of housing– Took the death of MLK to get enough support to
pass it through Congress
It wasn’t all Non-Violent
• Nation of Islam
• Black Panthers
• Race Riots