1965 the civil rights movement had focused on ending segregation and restore the voting rights of African Americans in the south.
In 1965 70% of African American had moved from the South to the big cities of the North and West during the great migration of the 1920s and the 1940s.
Just five days after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, a race riot broke out in Watts, an African American neighborhood in Los Angeles.
In 1965 Albert Raby, president of a council of community organization that worked to improve conditions for Chicago's poor, invited Dr.Kng to visit the city.
Dr.King failure in Chicago seemed to show that nonviolent protests could do little to change economic problems
1965 many African Americans,especially young people living in cities,began to turn away from king.
Race riots broke out in dozens of Americans cities between 1965 and 1968.
The worst riots took place in Detroit in 1967.
National Guard members resulted in 43 deaths and over 1,000 wounded.
Dr.King became sensitive to this criticism,and in 1965 he began to focus on economic issues.
African American became more assertive,they placed less emphasis on cooperation with sympathetic whites in the civil rights movement.
Back Power term mean that African Americans should control the social ,political ,and economic direction of their struggle.
Black Power also stressed pride in the African American cultural group.
African Americans showed pride in their racial heritage by adopting new afro hairstyles and African style clothing.
The African American Afro meant that African American should control the social,political,and economic direction of their struggle.
The late 1960's, the civil rights movement had fragmented into dozens of competing organizations with philosophies for reaching equality.
Dr.King went to Memphis,Tennessee,to support a strike of African American sanitation workers in March 1968.
On the evening of April 4,1968,as he stood on his hotel balcony in Memphis,Dr.King was assassinated by a sniper.
Dr.King's assassination touched off both national mourning and riots in more than 100 cities ,including Washington ,D.C.
Dr.King's death marked the end of an era in American history.