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Requiem for Nonviolence	-Elridge Cleaver= black panther leader -Death of MLK marked death knell of nonviolence in civil rights -MLK less and less influential in north -Criticized MLK for nonviolence in a violent, racist country -Black militants didn’t like MLK -Disliked by both racist whites and militant blacks -Bullet also killed the dream of nonviolence -Marked arrival of violent phase of civil rights -Predicted year of the panther and year of violence	0	mcs5109 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:51:32 GMT
Police and the Panthers	-FBI and CIA clashed with the Panthers -Harassed, disinformation, infiltration, provoked the Panthers -Frequent confrontations b/w police and Panthers Deborah Johnson -Shooting near home in Chicago -Police grabbed her robe, hair -Arrested with attempted murder -Killed 2 Flint Taylor -Bullet holes in walls of apartment -Bloody all over -Tried to prove they didn’t provoke the police	0	mcs5109 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:50:44 GMT
Basis of Black Power by SNCC	-Stokely Carmichael elected President of SNCC 1966 -Changed organizational efforts -All about Black Power -Position paper about what black power means -Black power doesn’t = black separatism -Not racist -Not anti-white -Just pro-black -Self-determination -Didn’t want to rely on whites for funding -Said whites should champion own rights, not those of blacks -white people cannot relate to the black experience -Blacks intimidated by the presence of whites in room -climate has to be created whereby blacks can express themselves -white participation means in the eyes of the black community that whites are the "brains" behind the movement -an all-black project is needed in order for the people to free themselves -we propose that our organization (SNCC) should be black-staffed, black-controlled, and black-financed -don’t want to be tools of white liberals	0	mcs5109 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:49:44 GMT
Watts Riots: The Aftermath	-Summer 1965 -Watts= ghetto in LA -6 days of looting, arrests, deaths -10,000 blacks looting, arson, beat up whites -Needed military authority for peace -$40M in property damage -Causes: -Not enough jobs -No jobs for untrained negroes -Not enough schooling -Resentment of police -Young don’t learn to read -Discipline problems -Benefits of gov’t plans don’t reach them -No breadwinner, no family life, more crime, more welfare	0	mcs5109 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:49:44 GMT

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