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The Movement Takes a New Turn

Malcom X

  • Malcom Little
  • Father was a minister "back to Africa"--Marcus Garvey
  • 7 year sentence for burglary

Nation of Islam

  • Elijah Muhammad
  • Allah would bring a "Black Nation"
  • wanted economic self sufficiency

Black nationalism

  • fiery speeches
  • Louis Farrakhan
  • Opposed integration

1964

  • X and Muhammad disagree about political action
  • creates Muslim Mosque
  • Pilgrimage to Mecca
  • Chages beliefs and shot to death in 1965
  • Influenced SNCC

Black Power Movement

SNCC

  • Stokely Carmicheal
  • tired of nonviolence
  • "We Shall Overrun"
  • "Black Power"

Black Panthers

  • 1966
  • Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
  • "Power flows from the barrel of a gun"
  • "Black is beautiful"

Riots

de jure segregation

  • racial segregation by law

de facto segregation

  • separation caused by social conditions

1964 riots

  • Rochester, New York, New Jersey

Watts Riots

  • 1965
  • black drunk driver beaten by white cops
  • 6 days
  • 34 dead and 1,000 + injured

Assassinations

MLK Jr.

  • April 4, 1968
  • Hotel balcony
  • High powered rifle
  • James Earl Ray confesses, recants three days later, then pleads guilty
  • conspiracy theories exist
  • caused violence in over 120 cities
  • Johnson uses 50,000 troops

Note: upon autopsy MLK Jr. was determined to have the heart of a 60-year-old, despite being only 39 (possibly stress induced?)

Robert Kennedy

  • Democrat- decides to run for president in 1968
  • Johnson drops out
  • wins California primary
  • Killed by an assassin in the Ambassador hotel, Los Angeles
  • Sirhan Sirhan--Jordanian who disliked Kennedy's Israel policy
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