US Civil Rights Movement

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Birmingham

White America saw 500 kids get arrested and attacked with dogs.

There was much support now for civil rights legislation.

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March on Washington 1963

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The event was highlighted by King's "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. August 28, 1963.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

Banned segregation in public places such as restaurants, buses

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Lyndon B. Johnson ’63-’68

Pushed Civil Rights Act through Congress

Passed more pro-civil rights laws than any other president

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Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)

Civil Rights Act of ’64

Civil Rights Act of ’68

Voting Rights Act of ’65

24th Amendment banning poll taxes

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Freedom Riders

Now it is time to test the small-town bus stops and highways!

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Freedom Riders

CORE volunteers, White and Black, got on buses and sat inter-racially on the bus.

They went into bus station lunch counters

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Freedom Riders attacked!

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Mobs also attacked them at the bus stations.

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Highways

The highways were obviously not safe.

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James Meredith, right, pulled himself to cover against a parked car after he was shot by a sniper. Meredith had been leading a march to encourage African Americans to vote. He recovered from the wound, and later completed the march. June 7, 1966

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Malcolm X and MLK

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Left to right: Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Ralph David Abernathy on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel Memphis hotel, a day before King's assassination. April 3,1968