Today’s Schedule – 05/06/10 • 28.4 Vocab and Timeline Check • 28.4 PPT: Political Response to the Civil Rights Movement • Continue Movie • HW : 28.5 Vocab and Timeline • Warm-Up : When you turn 18 do you plan on registering to vote? Do you think voting empowers citizens, why or why not?
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Today’s Schedule – 05/06/10• 28.4 Vocab and Timeline Check• 28.4 PPT: Political Response to the Civil Rights
Movement• Continue Movie• HW: 28.5 Vocab and Timeline• Warm-Up: When you turn 18 do you plan on
registering to vote? Do you think voting empowers citizens, why or why not?
JFK and the Civil Rights Movement• As a senator in Massachusetts JFK often voted
pro-civil rights but was not highly active on the issues– He knew he would need Southern Senate and House
members on his side to push through legislation
• As the violence of the Civil Rights Movement escalated JFK became highly embarrassed of the opinion of foreign nationals
• After violence in Birmingham in 1963 JFK was prompted to speak out against segregation and introduced legislation to desegregate all public spaces and any institution that received federal funding– Southern congressional members initially prevented
the legislation from passing
March on Washington
• August of 1963 civil rights leader Philip Randolph organized a march of over 200,000 people to march in D.C. in support of JFK’s desegregation bill
• At the march King delivered his infamous “I Have a Dream” speech