Lasting ImpactsU.S. History

After Dr. KingAfter the death of MLK Jr., protest movements began to die down

The Movement had made many significant gains by this time

However, racism and the social and economic gap between blacks and whites still exists

Radicalism Affects the Movement

Incidents of violence between whites and blacks continued to erupt in prisons, in public arenas, and on college campuses

Declined in frequency by the early 1970s

Civil rights activists then focused on integrating schools by busing mostly black students into higher-quality schools in white neighborhoods

By 1974, over 75 percent of black students in the South were enrolled in integrated schools

Movement’s GainsMade segregation illegal

Knocked down voting barriers

Increased African American political participation

African American poverty rates fell and median incomes rose

Increased number of African Americans graduating high school

Thurgood Marshall is the first African American Supreme Court Justice

Fair Housing Act- 1968- eliminated discrimination in housing

Controversial Issues Remain

Affirmative Action

Federal Power vs. States’ Rights

Music of the Movement

U.S. History

Pre- Civil WarTypically religious music

Example: Wade in the Wateroriginally a gospel song with masked instructions on how to run away

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot gospel song that masked references to the Underground Railroad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFcFzJT7Tw

Post – Reconstruction

Strange Fruit Billie Holiday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,

Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Music of the Movement

Go Tell It On the Mountain Replaced “That Jesus Christ is Born” with “To set me people free”

A Change is Gonna ComeSam Cooke

We Shall Not Be MovedMavis Staple

Post- Civil Rights Movement

“I Know Where I’ve Been” – Hairspray the Musical (1988)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLwSg2b6NQk&feature=kp

“Black or White”- Michael Jackson (1991)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FbkTX2bnis

“One Tribe”- Black Eyed Peas (2009)- 1:12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpVVSPv1G34

Let it Be- The Beatles, Across the Universe Version- :30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ahe5IDVbzg