ETH STD 21AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Cointelpro, Kerner Commission
30 Mar 2016
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Freedom movements, local action, assassination and state apparatus. Omnibus crime control and sage streets act 1968: occssa: need to respond to crimes, lbj we shall overcome (used in civil rights movements) in congress to advocate for the extension of civil rights. Alabama, selma marches: power concedes nothing without a struggle: never have never will . Voting rights act of 1965: make sure states with past racist voting laws were regulated by the federal government. Dismantled by the supreme court shelby county v. holder in 2013. Enabled discriminatory voter id laws in southern states. Seale and newton: founders of the bpp, oct 1966. Idea of self-defense: holds guns to police the police. Bpp was the first radical social movement that was caught on film: bpp enter sacramento state capital, occupying army of the police, state legislation used to weaken the bpp. Police depicted as pigs in their 10 point platform graphic. Cointelpro restrict minority access to community college education.
