Civil Rights 50’s & 60’s

NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

• Advance civil rights.

• Black voter registration.

• Legislative and legal maneuvering.

• Instrumental in Brown.

“Sit-in” Movement

• Woolworth’s lunch counter, Montgomery, Alabama.

• The movement spread quickly.

• Boycott as weapon.

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

(SNCC). Southern black students. No segregation, equality, and voter registration.

Birmingham, Alabama - 1960

Why Birmingham?

• Largest almost exclusively segregated city in the South.

• Bus Boycott.

• Freedom Riders.

• Birmingham Bombing. Four small girls killed. The Klan goes to war.

“Women love hoods too!”

James Meridith and Ole Miss, 1962

“March on Washington”

• March, 1963.• “I have a dream.”• 200,000 demonstrators

in a peaceful march.

1964 Civil Rights Act

• Gave the gov’t more powers of enforcement in school desegregation cases.

• Prohibited racial discrimination in all kinds of public accommodations and employment.

Voter registration

Black power

• Malcolm X.• Movement away from

King’s philosophy.• Black Panthers.• Bobby Seale, Huey

Newton, Stokely Carmicheal.