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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
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
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
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
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