March on Washington

Quiz

1. Where did the Freedom Riders begin their journey? (What city)

2. What University did James Meredith enroll in?3. Which city in the South was generally

regarded as the, “most segregated city in America”?

4. What happened to Medgar Evers hours after a JFK speech that aimed to end segregation?

5. What was the result of the Byron de la Beckwith trial?

March on Washington JFK sent civil rights

bill to Congress Equal access to all

public accommodations

U.S. attorney general power to file school desegregations suits

To persuade Congress to pass the bill, massive march on D.C. planned

Dream of Equality

250,000 show 75,000 whites Multiple speakers Highlight

MLK, “I Have a Dream”

I Have a Dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3P6N9g-dQg

Violence Ensues

Bombing of a Baptist Church in Birmingham

Four young girls killed

JFK assassinated

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Passed on July 2, 1963 Prohibits

discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender

All citizens the right to enter public places equally

Voting Rights

1870 – African Americans right to vote

Preventive measure? Poll Tax Literacy Test Intimidation

Freedom Summer

Nearly 1,000 volunteers Register black voters in Mississippi Mostly white and 1/3 females

Violence

June 1964 3 Volunteers

mysteriously disappear

KKK and the support of police

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Open to anyone Hoped to unseat

some Democrats

Fannie Lou Hamer

Arrested in 1962 Police forced

prisoners to beat her

Spoke at inaugural MFDP convention

Compromise

2 Seats given to MFDP

Promise to ban discrimination in 1968 by Democratic Party

LBJ?