Civil Rights Movement
Poor People's Campaign of 1968
Multicultural movement working to assist with more economic and human rights for poor Americans
Major march was at Solidarity Day Rally for Jobs, Peace and Freedom on June 19
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968
Black Power
The idea of black separatism
The idea that blacks and whites should live apart and solve their own problems
Nation of Islam supported the idea
Malcolm X, famous me
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) became chairman of SNCC
The world went in chaos and new leaders took charge or created new groups
Many cities exploded with violence with angry African Americans riots
King was shot and killed standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis Tennessee
King went to Memphis to support sanitation workers to unionize
Opposition of Vietnam War of 1967
King fought against the drafting claim that it would put America in more poverty, debt and problems in the long run
Protest against the drafting of American men around the ages of 18 and 26 who were not married, in college and etc. to fight in Vietnam War
Chicago Freedom Movement of 1965
Contributed to the the Fair Housing Act passing in 1969
Protesters experienced getting attacked by rocks, bottles, and firecrackers
Protest against segregated housing, education, employment and health insurance based on race
Bloody Sunday of 1965
Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955
The 1st major movement of Civil Right Movement
Result of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her to white male passenger
Many African American Civil Rights protesters stop riding the bus to walk or get rides
Sparked the social movement of intergration on public transportation
Albany Movement of 1961
King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Protest resulting in jailing of King with a sentence of 45 days
King's Letter from Birmingham Jail
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
"Freedom Riders"
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Experienced attacks from Ku Klux Klan and mobbed severely
When they reached Rock Hill, South Carolina, John Lewis was mobbed badly and becomes chairman of SNCC
African Americans and white volunteers took bus rides south to test the enforcement of US Supreme Court's decision of prohibiting segregation on interstate transportation
Protested on segregation of waiting rooms in southern terminals
March on Washington of 1963
This was the time when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. presented his "I Have a Dream" speech standing on the steps of Lincoln Memorial
One of America's largest of about 200,000 to 300,000 participants to march on the Mall of Washington D.C during August 28, 1963
Resulted to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
