Civil Rights Movement 1965 1968 Malcolm X Assassinated

Civil Rights Movement 1965 -1968

Malcolm X Assassinated § Feb. 21 1965 – Harlem, N. Y. – black nationalist – founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity

Pettus Bridge blockade § § § March 7 1965 Selma, Ala. A march to Montgomery in support of voting rights but are stopped at the Pettus Bridge by a police blockade. Fifty marchers are hospitalized after police use tear gas, whips, and clubs against them. The incident is dubbed "Bloody Sunday“ The march is considered the catalyst for pushing through the voting rights act five months later.

Voting Rights Act of 1965 § Aug. 10 1965 – Congress passes – Making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote – Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal.

Watts Race Riots § Aug. 11– 17, 1965 § Watts, Calif. Race riots erupt in a African American section of Los Angeles.

Affirmative Action – Sept. 24, 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson § Executive Order 11246 – enforces affirmative action for the first time.

Black Panthers § § § Founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale Oct. 1966 Oakland, Calif.

“Black Power” April 19 1967 Stokely Carmichael, a leader of SNCC, coins the phrase in a speech. Definition: assertion of black pride and “The coming together of black people to fight for their liberation by any means necessary. “

Loving v. Virginia § June 12, 1967 – Supreme Court Decision – Laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional

Race Riots § July 1967 – Newark § July 12– 16 – Detroit § July 23– 30

Assassination of Martin Luther King § § April 4 1968 Memphis, Tenn. Age 39, Standing on the balcony outside his hotel room. § James Earl Ray is convicted of the crime.

Civil Rights Act of 1968 § April 11 – Signed by President Johnson – prohibits discrimination in the § Sale of housing § Rental of housing § Financing of housing