Splintering of the Civil Rights Movement

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Splintering of the Civil Rights Movement

• Objective 11.02

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Malcolm X

• Muslim minister
• Prominent black nationalist leader
• Advocated black pride and economic self-reliance
• Beliefs contradicted MLKs until he returned from
  Mecca in 1965
• Was assassinated in 1965

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Impact

• Even with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting
  Rights Act the plight of African Americans still
  continued
• The lives of individuals hadnt changed
  significantly
• This caused more anger and tension to rise

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Race Riots

• Watts Riot (1965)
• In African American neighborhood in L.A.
• Occurred due to police brutality
• Lasted for 6 days
• 14,000 National Guard and 1,500 policed needed
• 34 killed, 900 injured
• 45 million in property damage

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• Detroit Riot (1967)
• 43 deaths, 1000 injured
• Tanks and soldiers with machine guns sent in
• 250 million in property damage

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Kerner Commission

• President Johnson appoint the National Advisory
  Commission on Civil Disorders to study the causes
  of the 1967 race riots
• Fount that black Americans were receiving unfair
  wages and that violence was due in majority to
  white racism

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Black Power Movement

• Late 1960s and early 1970s
• Focus on empowering racial pride
• Growing tiresome of lackluster results of the
  nonviolent movement

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• Slogan coined by Stokely Carmichael, a member of
  SNCC
• Often seen as a separate movement because some
  believed in racial separation, black nationalism,
  and resorting to violence
• Spawned the Black Panther Party

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