AASP 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: King Long, Anti-Racism, Bull Connor

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: African American Studies
• Course: AASP 100
• Professor: Shane Walsh

Document Summary

Southern states: dr. king and the rest of the mainstream civil rights community had not yet gotten a chance to expand the message outside of the south. 1965 watts riots, los angeles: these riots lasted in the watts neighborhood of la from august 11- The e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) depri(cid:448)atio(cid:374), so(cid:272)ial isolation, and general despair of thousands of negroes teeming in. Northern and western ghettos are the ready seeds which give birth to tragi(cid:272) e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374)s of (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) 1966 dr. king goes to chicago: to try and spread the civil rights message outside of the south, dr. King and the sclc traveled to chicago, il: their aim was to address housing discrimination, employment discrimination by openly challenging slum lords, this was one of the most difficult campaigns for dr. king and the civil. The poor people"s ca(cid:373)paig(cid:374: this was the last big civil rights campaign by dr. king.