Black Power - University of Florida
Black Power
KEY THEMES & ISSUES
1. Civil & Voting Rights Acts
Limits of reform
2. The Northern Situation
3. Roots of Black Power
Civil Rights Act 1964
Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigns and (belated) federal response…
1963: Birmingham
March on Washington
1964: Lyndon Johnson & Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights
Voter Education Projects, 1962-
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Atlantic City Convention
Fannie Lou Hamer
Liberal/LBJ “betrayal”
Selma, 1965
LBJ & the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Voting Rights, 2
Transitional Years, 1965-68
The North
Watts Riot, August 1965
The limits of reform and white liberalism exposed
Statuary Equality vs Equality of Opportunity
Northern Situation, 1
Health
Economics
Black unemployment rate = 2 X white rate in 1965
Black median incomes declined relative to white incomes, 1960-5
Blacks = c.29% of long term unemployed
Education
Boston, 1963: 21% less spent on black pupils than white
The Northern Situation, 2
Housing Discrimination
Shelley vs Kramer, 1947
MLK’s Chicago Campaign, 1966
Housing issue exposed limits of white racial liberalism
LBJ’s “War on Poverty”
Office of Economic Opportunity
1966 Fair Housing bill fails
Roots of Black Power, 1
Malcolm X
Marcus Garvey
Black Muslims (Nation of Islam)
Black separatism
armed self-defense
Organization of Afro-American Unity, 1965
Accepts white radical support
class vs race
Assassination
Roots of Black Power, 2
Meredith March, Miss, June 1966 (James Meredith)
MLK (SCLC)
Stokely Carmichael (SNCC)
Floyd McKissick (CORE)
Tensions:
frustration with rate of change
persistence of black disadvantage
disputes over tactics
Roots of Black Power, 3
Vietnam
MLK & Malcolm: Both stress links between race, poverty, & imperialism
Roots of Black Power, 4
SCLC Poor People’s Campaign
Memphis, 1968
Sanitation Workers Strike
class & race…
MLK killed, April 4, 1968
National riots & radicalization of protest…
Govt. (FBI) repression of radicals
COINTELPRO
Conclusions
1. The CR Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were the result of mass activism in the South and federal action.
2. With the passage of these Acts many whites assumed that black protest would end.
3. However, raised black pride, expectations & frustration at the continuing gap between egalitarian laws & discriminatory practices, encouraged more militant protests.
4. Black power ideas reflected both rising black frustrations and an insightful critique of the systemic inequities of American political, social, and economic structures
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