HIST 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Barry Goldwater, Free Market, Civil Rights Act Of 1964
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The student non-violent coordinating committee (sncc) ella baker. Wants to replace the culture of segregation with a beloved community. Puts a positive twist on the notions of desegregation. Freedom rides: traveled by bus to the south to make sure the segregation laws are being obeyed on buses. Kkk attacked them, bombs were used against them. Oxford was ordered to admit a black student and resulted in two deaths. Mlk came here to help the civil rights movement, and sends black school kids into the streets of birmingham. Eugene bull connor(police chief) and the police are shown on television assaulting kids with hoses, nightsticks, and attack dogs, everyone including kennedy was horrified. Businessmen in birmingham opposed the cops too because of this. June 1963 a field secretary for the naacp is killed by sniper fire. September a bomb explodes in a black church and kills four girls. In august 250k black and white americans converged onto nations capital.
