20. For what reasons, and in what ways, did the Civil Rights movement in the United States become more radical between 1965 and 1968?
Paper 3 (RACHEL ARCHAMBEAU)
20. For what reasons, and in what ways, did the Civil Rights movement in the United States become more radical between 1965 and 1968?
• 1965-Selma Montgomery March in Alabama
-MLK, prominent civil rights leader, encouraged the march
-goal was to peacefully bring attention to the violation of black’s rights
-Marcher’s were attacked and violently beaten by white policemen
• 1965-1968—central time period for Black Power Movement
-Radicals such as Stokely Carmichael became critical at Dr. Martin Luther King’s nonviolent approach to ending discrimination which included bus boycotts and sit-ins
-urged fellow blacks to use violence against oppressive whites
-Movement encouraged sense of black pride as well
-afro hair styles encouraged, many blacks rejected “white style” of dress
-Black Arts movement
• 1966-Black Panther Party founded in Oakland, California
-Party followed the ideology of Malcolm X and The Nation of Islam which was to use violence and force if necessary
-sought to rid African American neighborhoods of police brutality
-Race riots throughout this period let to white flight in many cities
• MLK until his death in 1968 not comfortable to Black Power Movement as he had always advocated a non-violent approach
• The Black Power Movement enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from White domination
-found violence as necessary means to secure rights
