MLK & SCLC
Jim Crow Laws (and pictures)
Civil Rights Act of 1968 (AKA Fair housing act)
W.E.B. Dubois
and Fannie Lou Hamer and MFDP
1st Slide
SCLC:
_MLK - preacher.rallyer. "He didn't wish for change; he changed things."
_non-violent civil disobedience and believed that it could use that to gain the civil rights
_Boycotts, and sit-ins
_ Albany Movement between 1961 and 1962, the Birmingham, Alabama Campaign and the March on Washington in the Summer of 1963
2nd Slide
Jim Crow Laws:
_state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965
_mandated "separate but equal"
_The Jim Crow period or the Jim Crow era refers to the time during which this practice occurred
_State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act; none were in effect at the end of the 1960s
_Twenty-seven Jim Crow laws were passed in the Lone Star state from 1866 to 1958
3rd Slide
Civil Rights Act of 1968:
_AKA Fair Housing Act
_While the Civil Rights Act of 1866[1] prohibited discrimination in housing, there were no federal enforcement provisions. The 1968 expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as amended) handicap and family status. It also provided protection for civil rights workers
_The passage of the bill was largely spurred by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. a week before
4th Slide
W.E.B. Dubois:
_was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.
_David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W.E.B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism—scholarship, propaganda, integration, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."
_"The Father of Pan-Africanism."
_helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909
_Du Bois published Harlem Renaissance
_increasingly radical
5th Slide
MFDP:
_Fannie Lou Hamer - Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- electrifying speaker and constant champion of civil rights
_Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was an American political party created in the state of Mississippi in 1964, during the civil rights movement
_assistance from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
_It was said to succeed in dramatizing the violence and injustice by which they claimed the white power structure governed Mississippi
_Atlantic City, New Jersey
Annotated Bib:
Schulke, Flip. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: W. W. Norton, 1976. Martin Luther King, Jr is a documentary going from issues in Montgomery to advances in Memphis. It speaks of struggles placed before African Americans and how a preacher, King, was a source of non-violent strength. The portion used spoke of his demeanor and his moving speeches that rallied thousands of acivists. It is a very reliable source seeing as it was found in our school library and was published only a few years after the Civil Rights issues. There is also an introduction by Coretta Scott King.
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