Reading #4:Consequences of the Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Legislation

Objective…Identify & explain the

legislative actions that advanced CRs during the LBJ Administration.

LBJ was sworn on Nov. 22, 1963. The swearing in ceremony took place on Air Force One before

leaving Dallas for Washington D.C

LBJ takes over for JFK…JFK’s funeral procession...

The Great Society

• The most far reaching social reform since the New Deal

• The goals…• End poverty• Protect minorities • Protect consumers• Improve children’s health• Improve medical care

An influential book…The Other America (1962) by M. Harrington

• Claims 20% of America is…– Inadequately housed– Malnourished– No or poor medical care– Below poverty level

“What good was winning the right to sit at the lunch counter if one could not afford to buy a hamburger” …Out of Many

The War on PovertyThe 1964 State of the Union address…“This

administration today, here and now declares unconditional war on poverty” – LBJ

LBJ State of Union War on Poverty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfT03Ihtlds

The 24th Amendment

Poll Tax Receipt

LBJ: The Civil Rights Bill of 1964

• JFK’s bill.. LBJ urges to be passed ... “a fitting tribute to JFK”• Empowers the federal government to end segregation in the South • Prohibited segregation in public places... Hotels, restaurants, etc • Enforcement includes race, religion, gender & religion, national

origin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK2GdOxz3s0

The Election of 1964 LBJ Goldwater

Electoral: 486 52Pop. vote %: 61% 31.4%

– Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress– A mandate for change

Following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act the main goal

becomes securing the right to vote.

1964: Mississippi Freedom Summer

• WHO?... SNCC& CORE sponsor 900+ volunteers• WHAT?... Register voters

Freedom Schools… Freedom Dem. Party…

• WHERE?... Mississippi• WHEN?... Summer of 1964

Voter Registration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY6Dg35-tIw

Freedom Summer

• 3 CR workers murdered

- 30 bombings

- 80 beatings

- 35 shootings

The car of the murdered CR workers

The murdered CRs workers…

- James Chaney,-

- Andrew Goodman &

- Michael Schwerner

The Results of…

• National media attention• 60K voters registered• 40 Freedom schools

• MFDP sent delegates to DNC

challenging the all-white delegates

The Selma Campaign• 1965- SNCC organizes a voter registration in Selma,

Alabama• 3,000 AAs arrested • March, 1965 - Protestors plan a 50 mile march from

Selma to Montgomery, AL to deliver grievances to Gov. Wallace

The Selma to Montgomery March

• March 7, 1965- “Bloody Sunday”… Police use tear gas & beatings to stop 600 marchers

The Selma to Montgomery MarchOn March 21, 1965- 3,000 members led by MLK with

Federal Protection marched… numbers grow to 30,000

The Voting Rights Act of 1965• Eliminates literacy tests• Allowed federal officials to register voters• The 24th Amendment eliminates poll taxes

First time since the Reconstruction period blacks are moving back to the South.