The+Movement+Takes+a+New+Turn


 * //__The movement takes a new turn__//**

[|James Baldwin] wanted to help the Negro past, he was worthy of life, since everyone around him denied it. In 1963, The Fire Next Time, Baldwin and suffering had set African Americans apart but had also made them stronger. Now, he asked African Americans were they tired of promises. [|Malcolm X] was a minister for 12 year of the Nation of Islam, Malcolm was spreading Ideas to Black Nationalism, separate identity and racial unity of the African American Community, Malcolm speeches won him many followers, also Including [|Louis Farrakhan], who would one day head the Nation of Islam. In1966, in the fall, a new militant political party, the Black Panthers, was formed by activists [|Bobby Seals] and Huey Newton. Some of the Panthers wanted African Americans to lead their own communities. Black power gave rise to the slogan Black is beautiful which fostered racial pride. Civil rights movement focused on battling De jure Segregation, racial separation created by law. 1960, the most shattering year was 1968. A series of tragic events hit so much force that, month by month, the nation seemed to be coming apart from each other. Dr .King turned his attention to economic issues. Calling his new crusade the poor people’s campaign, King began planning a poor people’s march on Washington. Black power gave rise to the slogan Black is beautiful which fostered racial pride. Civil rights movement focused on battling De jure Segregation, racial separation created by law. 1960, the most shattering year was 1968. A series of tragic events hit so much force that, month by month, the nation seemed to be coming apart from each other. Dr .King turned his attention to economic issues. Calling his new crusade the poor people’s campaign, King began planning a poor people’s march on Washington.
 * //__Malcolm X and Black Nationalism[[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:R7_EG7zgvM2AiM:http://www.africanamericans.com/images2/MalcolmX_MuhammadAli.jpg width="128" height="129" link="http://images.goggle.dk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.africanamericans.com/images2/MalcolmX_MuhammadAli.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.africanamericans.com/MalcolmX.htm&h=480&w=477&sz=35&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=R7_EG7zgvM2AiM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMalcolm%2BX%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den"]]__//**
 * //__The Black Power Movement__//** [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:dLBeoHq6JEV37M:http://www.summeroflove.org/images/vignes/panthers.jpeg width="135" height="89" link="http://images.goggle.dk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.summeroflove.org/images/vignes/panthers.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://www.summeroflove.org/vignes.html&h=396&w=600&sz=27&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=dLBeoHq6JEV37M:&tbnh=89&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBlack%2Bpanthers%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den"]]

Out side of the big civil rights movement, more radical and militant political leaders. The most well known was Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little). he spent several years in prison for burglary. When he was released in 1952 and changed his name from Little he said the name Little came from white slave owners. He spent the next twelve years as a minister of the Nation of Islam, spreading the ideas of Black Nationalism, a belief thin the separate identity and racial unity of the African American community. And in 1964 Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam and formed his own religious organization called the Muslim Mosque, Inc. One of the followers of Malcolm X the you [|Stokely Carmichael], after being beaten and jailed for his participation in demonstrations, he was tired of nonviolent protest. He called on SNCC workers to carry guns for self defense. The split in the civil rights movement became clear in June 1966. Carmichael’s idea of black power resonated with many African Americans. It was a call to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a community. In the fall of 1966, a new militant political party, the [|Black Panthers] was founded by activist Bobby Seale and [|Heuy Newton]. The Panthers wanted African Americans to lead their own communities. The panthers also wanted to combat what they saw as police brutally in the ghetto. Often as a result they became in direct confrontation with white authorities. The early civil rights movement focused on battling de jure segregation, racial separation by law. Changes in the law, however did not address the more difficult issue of de facto segregation separation caused by social condition such as poverty. One of the most violent riots happened in the Los Angles neighborhood of [|Watts.] On August 11, 1965 police in Watts pull over a 21 year old black man for drunk driving. At first the interaction was friendly among police, the suspect, and the crowd of Watts’s residence that had gathered. When the suspect resisted arrest, however, one police officer panicked and began to swing his riot baton. The crowd was outraged, and the scene touched off six days of rioting. Thousands of people filled the streets, burning cars and stores, stealing merchandise, and sniping firefighters. When the National Guards and the local police finally gained control, 34 people were dead and more than a thousand injured. Violent spread to other cities in 1966 and 1967. Cries of “Burn, baby, burn” replaced the gentler slogans of earlier civil rights movement. __//**Tragedy Strikes in 1968**//__ [|Martin Luther King Jr]. assassination sparked violent reactions across the nation. In an outburst of rage and frustration, some African Americans riot setting fires and looting stores in more than 120 cities. The riots and the police response to the m, left close to 50 people dead. President Johnson ordered flag on federal building to be flown at half mast to honor King, but it took more than 50,000 troops to quell the violence. For Americans of all races, King’s death eroded faith in the idea of nonviolence. Since the assassination of President Kennedy, his brother [|Robert F. Kennedy], had come to support the civil rights movement and opposed the Vietnam War. In 1968, he decided to enter the race for the democratic presidential nomination and h to was assassinated. //__Sean Cordero__//
 * //__Malcolm X and Black Nationalism[[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:nijd1i7Esujc0M:http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/Collab/CivRtsWeb/Images/malcolmx.jpg width="110" height="147" link="http://images.goggle.dk/imgres?imgurl=http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/Collab/CivRtsWeb/Images/malcolmx.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hnn.us/blogs/archives/4/2005/07/&h=910&w=680&sz=132&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=nijd1i7Esujc0M:&tbnh=147&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMalcolm%2BX%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den"]]__//**
 * //__Riots In the Streets[[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:SKEx1x1U3gG5IM:http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/programmes_this_world0_lapd___protect_and_serve0/img/1.jpg width="116" height="116" link="http://images.goggle.dk/imgres?imgurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/programmes_this_world0_lapd___protect_and_serve0/img/1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/programmes_this_world0_lapd___protect_and_serve0/html/1.stm&h=300&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=12&um=1&tbnid=SKEx1x1U3gG5IM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3DWatts%2Briots%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den"]]__//**