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Slide 99
Aides of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King point out to police the path of the assassin's bullet. Joseph Louw, photographer for the Public Broadcast Laboratory, rushed from his nearby motel room in Memphis to record the scene moments after the shot. Life magazine, which obtained exclusive rights to the photograph, made it public. April 4, 1968.
Slide 100
Civil Rights legal achievements
Harry Truman ordered the armed forces AND the government to be desegregated.
Slide 101
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sent 101st airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas to maintain order.
Slide 102
John F. Kennedy
Called Coretta Scott King to pledge support while MLK was in jail.
Eventually sent federal protection of freedom riders
Proposed need for civil rights legislation
Contents
- Abolitionists
- Harriet Tubman
- John Brown
- Reconstruction 1865-77
- Reconstruction
- However. . .
- NAACP
- NAACP fought in the courts
- The Fight
- Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
- In Response. . .
- King’s sacrifice
- Quiz
- Sit-in Tactics
- Not only were there sit-ins. .
- Federalism
- The Fight
- Voter Registration
- Bloody Sunday
- Crime Scene
- Headlines!
- Birmingham
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Lyndon B. Johnson ’63-’68
- Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
- Freedom Riders
- Highways
- Malcolm X and MLK
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
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