Birmingham Pressure after Albany MLK arrested ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ Read for next seminar LK-jail.html.

Birmingham

• Pressure after Albany

• MLK arrested

• ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’

• Read for next seminar

• http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html

March On Washington, Aug 1963

Signing the Civil Rights Act, 1964

Selma, Alabama, 1965

The Voting Rights Act

Freedom Summer, 1964

• 1961 SNCC campaign in Miss. led by Robert Moses

• 1963 COFO• 1964 Freedom

Summer• MFDP and

Democratic Convention

Watts, 11 August 1965

• 50-80,000 inolved

• 34 killed, 900 injured

• 4,000 arrests

• $35 M damage

Newark, 1967

• Young boy injured during rioting

• Riots 1966-7 in various US cities

Detroit, 1967 – The Aftermath

King on the Defensive

• 1965 FBI leaked stories about his private life

• Summer 1966 Chicago fiasco

• 1967 Came out against the Vietnam War

Memphis, April 4

• MLK supporting garbage worker’strike

• Killed on balcony of hotel

• Riots erupted in over 100 cities

Black Power

• Malcolm X• 1964 SNCC to Africa• Malcolm X killed 21

Feb 1965• 1966 SNCC and

CORE adopted Black Nationalism

• 1966 Meredith march

H. Rap Brown

• 1967 assumed leadership of SNCC

• 1968 joined BP’s

• ‘Violence is necessary and it’s as American as apple pie.’

• Picture shows Brown being led for trial, accused of inciting a riot, 1967

The Black Panthers

• 1966 BPs founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

• Cleaver Soul on Ice (1968)

Mexico, 1968

‘A long time coming,and a long time gone…’