1) failure of the mississipi freedom rider 1961 3) March on
Washington 1963
focused Mississipi civil
on Protestors support for rights bill
·
joined to show new
lowest percentage of African Americans registered for
voting force presidente congress pass bill
·
hoped large numbers to
Set up new
political party MFDP (250 , 000 ppl)
gathering both races join
·
·
largest political ,
· MFDP ran classes to help African Americans >
- schools
taught history e politics ·
Live broadcasts >
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MCK
-
I have a dream' speek >
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fixed position
those took part were shot or beaten KKK
who up by huge publicity
·
·
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three members of CORE arrested for driving offences ·
put pressure on politicians
G dead six weeks later (Schwerner & Goodman) President said > assasinated
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yes -
their deaths attracted huge publicity
·
suspected that this gained urge publicity only because Schwerner & Goodman were white 4) Selma and
voting rights
failed because little people successful in
registering very few people could vote in selma
·
·
most failed with trition MCK 1 SNc Selma
invited to campaign in
·
· did improvements , gained support for civil rights ·
known as
Bloody Sunday' >
- police I state troops attack
act
congress passed voting rights
2)
Birmingham Peace Marches 1963 ·
many protectors questioned the non-violent strategy
>
-
different perspectives
·
project ( ·
gained voting rights
· aimed to end
segregation through non-violent protests (e g sit-ins marches
.
·
First march on April 3
were children in non-violent protests
many e SNCC trained
young people
·
jails full >
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Chief Connor ordered
dogs set at protestors
TV
·
footage
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Kennedy sent negotiator
State
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troops sent by governor of alabama to disrupt taks
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extreme violence >
- sent federal troops to restor calm
White businesses forced to
desegregate
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women's movement Impact
Now 1966 Reed vs Reed 1971
·
ensure women had a
prominent voice in mainstream ·
laws that discriminate against women were unconstitutional
fathers
equal rights to access abortion care
e birth control if children died without a will
automatically granted authority to administer their
· ·
children's estates
Eleanor Roosevelt
held press conferences women allowed Educational Amendment Act 1972
>
Only
· -
·
made broadcasts ,
wrote articles ·
outlawed discrimination against girls e women in education
helped a rights very influential in Democratic
society
>
-
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to women's
President's commission on the status of women Equal 1974
Agreed to support John Kennedy if create the credits
Opportunity Act
·
chair to be loans based gender
e
appoint her as ·
illegal for women refuse on
signed in June 1963
·
Equal pay act
Betty Friedan Nixon e
Watergate scandal 1969
·
Journalist- > The Feminine Mystique > best
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seller ·
suspicious of those around him
wrote articles While House Plumbers' to prevent mon leaks of sensitive info
set up
·
·
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believed that women should have equal political , economic1 social rights to men ·
set
up CREEP to l-elect as president
3 funded to discredit opponents
plumbers
women's liberation movement 5 men arrested twist
ending
·
>
-
burgurlar devices
more radical than Now were discovered
repairing bugging
·
·
regarded tried to cover
up
men as
enemy
· ·
White tapes
aggressive methods damage property house
exposed
·
>
-
· >
-
tactics
attracted
negative publicity change
· >
-
Effects on him
Phyllis sculary bye bye to
·
career
traditional roles of women > nature
·
was useful > led environmental actions
-
-
·
catholic opponent of abortion Regained some further years >
-
· >
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respect in author
opposed Equal rights Amendment
·
future presidents consulted him for advice
I weaken importance of difficult
family
·
to remit people
3 serve
military lost frust
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lose financial support from ex-husbands
