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The Radical Civil Rights Movement

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What aspects did the radical civil rights movement take on?

  • Nation of Islam…the “Black Muslims”
    • Group that preached Islamic teachings, armed self-defense, and the evils of the white race

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What aspects did the radical civil rights movement take on?

  • Malcolm X
    • Preacher in the Nation of �Islam
    • Coined the idea “Ballots �then Bullets”…
      • If ballots don’t change �America then use bullets

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What aspects did the radical civil rights movement take on?

  • Black Power
    • Term coined by Stokely �Carmichael
    • Idea to segregate blacks from �whites and pursue all black �brotherhood and organization�and eventually an independent�nation

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What aspects did the radical civil rights movement take on?

  • Black Panthers
    • Founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California
    • Militant group that supported �boycotting the US military as �it unfairly imprisoned young �black men into the white �man’s army
    • Acted out several terrorist �plots against white Americans �and US agencies…still exists

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What aspects did the radical civil rights movement take on?

  • Assassinations
    • Malcolm X
      • February 21, 1965 in Harlem, New York
      • Gunned down by members of the Nation of Islam
    • Martin Luther King, Jr.
      • April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee
      • Gunned down by James Earl Ray
    • Robert (Bobby) Kennedy
      • June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, California
      • Gunned down by Sirhan Sirhan…assassin has no motive and claims to be a Manchurian Candidate
        • (a person completely brainwashed and controlled by a government agency)