Civil Rights Presentation

Plessy v. Ferguson

• Louisiana Railroad carriage
• "Separate but Equal"
• Justice John Marshall Harlan

Outcomes

• 7 to 1 vote
• State influence
• Entrenchment on 14th amendment and Jim Crow system
• Never overturned

The Nation of Islam

• Wallace D. Fard Muhammad, July 4 1930
• Improve spiritual, mental, social and economic conditions of African Americans

Outcomes and Criticism

• Descibed as black supremacist and antisemitic
• Seperatism
• Million Man March

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Born: January 15 1929
• 1957: SCLC President
• 1964: Nobel Peace Prize
• Civil Rights Act Passed
• 1965: Voting Rights Act
• 1965-8: Economic Justice
• 1968: Assassination

Notable Contributions

• I Have a Dream Speech: March on Washington, August 1963
• Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-6
• Birmingham Campaign, April 1963
• I Have a Dream Speech: March on Washington, August 1963

Black Panther Party

• Founded: October 1966
• "Black Panther Party for Self-Defence"
• "Undying love for the people" and the 10-point program
• Marxism/Maoism

Contributions and Opposition

• Huey Newton & Bobby Seale
• "The Panther 21"
• Death of Fred Hampton
• COINTELPRO and J. Edgar Hoover
• FBI Doubling down under Nixon

Freedom Summer

• Voter Registration Drive: Mississippi Summer Project
• Ku Klux Klan, police and state involvement
• Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney

Contribution and OUtcomes

• 50 Freedom Schools
• 1,200 African American voters registered
• DNC refused to seat protest slate of delegates elected through COFO Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• Deepened divisions between ideologies