MMW 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jim Crow Laws, The White People, Operation Rolling Thunder

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 15
• Professor: Prestholdt

Document Summary

Racial discrimination laws (jim crow laws) that segregated all public places, determined where people could live, etc. Focus was on the south because segregation there was more extreme and often violent. Brought the violence experienced by blacks in the south to national attention. Movement was about resisting segregation and raising awareness about how extreme it has become. Public opinion changed so that civil rights became the biggest issue to be solved in the eyes of the american people. Law enforcement saw him as a threat. Fbi tried to tell people he and the movement were communist (not true, no one bought it) The crowds that showed up showed how big the movement had gotten. Awarded the nobel peace prize in 1964. Went on to endorse the anti vietnam war movement and anti poverty. Openly defying segregation laws was one of the central strategies of the movement movements. Forcing the government to act was another method of resistance.