End of the Civil Rights movement under LBJ

1.  August 28, 1963
 “I Have a Dream
Speech”
 Over 250,000 people
in attendance
 Helps pass the Civil
Rights Act of 1964

2.  Dr. King marches to
bring awareness
about voting rights
in the South
 Alabama Governor
George Wallace
opposes the march
 LBJ protected
marchers w/ federal
troops
 Brought about Voting
Rights Act of 1965

3.  1964, a campaign to
register voters in the
South
 1000 College Students
went to Mississippi
 June 21- 2 white New
Yorkers and an African-
American were
abducted and killed
 1964-6.7% Miss. Blacks
registered to vote
 1969-66.5% Miss. Blacks
registered to vote

4.  August 11-16, 1965
 Frustration when a
routine arrest by an LA
police officer turned into
a riot.
 National Guard restored
order- 34 dead, 898
injured, 4000 arrested
 $100 million in damage
 Kerner Commission-white
racism was
responsible for the
tensions that led to the
riots

5.  1. Civil Rights Act of 1964
 Made it illegal to discriminate in employment and
public accommodations
 Began to enforce the Brown vs. the Board Decision of
1954
 2. Voting Rights Act of 1965
 Brought the entire voting and registration process
for voting under Federal Control
 LBJ – “We have lost the South for a generation.”

6.  Challenged racism &
segregation w/ non-violence
and passive
resistance-
 Beliefs of Gandhi

7.  Family moved to Lansing,
Michigan to escape racism
 Dad murdered at 3,
“reported suicide”
 Orphaned, life of crime,
while in jail met Elijah
Mohammed-Nation of
Islam
 God was Black & great
war would occur between
races
 Believed in Black Power
 African-American
movement that focused on
gaining control of economic
and political power, by
force if necessary.

8.  Beliefs
 The white man was
the devil with whom
blacks could not live.
 “Integration was
dead. Absolute
segregation of the
races was the goal.”
 Killed Feb. 21, 1965
after he broke w/ the
nation of Islam