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The Black Freedom
Struggle
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Civil Rights

1919 Race Riots

1917 Garvey and UNIA

1909 NAACP

1915 S. Court overturned ‘grandfather clause’

1925 Randolph and the BSCP
War as the locomotive of history
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1941 Randolph and
‘March on Washington
Movement.

FDR and Exec Order 8802
(FEPC)
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1942 CORE

1944 Smith vs Allwright’

1948 Truman desegregated
army

Bebop
Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka et al
 George
E.C. Hayes,
Thurgood Marshall,
and James Nabrit,
congratulating each
other, following
Supreme Court
decision declaring
segregation
unconstitutional, 1954.
Little Rock, Arkansas 1957
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
The
Boycott
lasted 381 Days
MLK
comes to
public attention
SCLC,
1957
Greensboro’, NC 1960
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Freedom Riders
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James Meredith, Miss., Sept 1962
Birmingham, Ala.
 1961 Albany,
Georgia
 Apr
1963 SCLC in
Birmingham
 June
1963, CR Bill
presented to Congress
March On Washington, Aug 1963
Signing the Civil Rights Act, 1964
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Selma, Alabama, 1965
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The Voting Rights Act
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Freedom Summer,1964
Watts, 11 August 1965
50-80,000
inolved
34
killed, 900
injured
4,000
$35
arrests
M damage
Newark, 1967
 Young
boy injured
during rioting
 Riots
1966-7 in various
US cities
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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
 1964
X
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
(1968)
Soul on Ice
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Mexico, 1968
+ ‘A long time coming,and a long time
gone…’