HIST 2061 Lecture : Af Am Hist Notes
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To withhold funds (schools & colleges: equal employment opportunity commission (eeoc)-monitors discrimination in employment. Mississippi freedom summer: robert bob" moses and the council of federated organizations (core-moving blacks in ms to vote, sncc, sclc, naacp, 1,000 northern white students. 30 homes 30 churches bombed in ms riots, 80-85 beaten, over 1,000 arrested: 3volunteer disappear (philadelphia, ms, summer 1964 casulaties. Stokley carmichael (sncc) & floyd mckisick (core) & radicalism. Juvenille, dropping out, petty crime, ad prison (1946) Black power: black coalition to elect representatives. Rap brown become head of sncc: militant rhetoric (calling white authorites honkies and pigs , vague talk about violence and vague threats. Internal problems in civil rights organizations: white women & black women. The black panther party: institutions, free breakfast program, medical clinics, political & drug education programs. Controversies (police shootouts)- cost them the lives o some of their most prominent pictures: j. edgar hoover & cointelpro (1967)