Civil Rights

Local- Local policemen turned a blind eye

Some Local policemen would be part of the Ku Klux Klan

They were elected posts for sheriff

State- Jim Crow laws are state laws

They say these rights belong to the state not government 

Federal government shouldn't interfere

Federal- Congress put a block on laws being passed they don't support desegregation

Supreme Courts make changeds to help desegregation but it is slow

No political benefit for the Republicans and the opposition was from felllow Democrats

National- Absence of media coverage with much of the campaigning coming via the NAACP's effort

President- Was believed civil rights could progress signifcantly under him

But he feared large scale intervention

Unwilling to put his political weight behind the campaigners

State and Federal- Dixiecrats in Washington to obstruct  his bills

The Southern Manifesto and effectivley eliminated the already limited influence of black congressmen

Closure of schoolsm continued use of Jim Crow Laws and the political popularity of governors like Faubus

General population- who would turn into a mob chanting racist language

White Citizen's Council- formed in Greenwood reached 60,000

Local and state politicians were more willing to join the Council's than the Klan

Third Ku Klux Klan- was directly responsible for a number of deaths including that of NAACP organiser Medgar Evans and the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church

Dixiecrats- loose group of Democrat politicians whose poltical careers and inclinations were directed at obstructing desegregation

These included filibustering, savaging bulls in committee and in the States themselves and rousing popular sentiments against desegregation

King and SCLC were also being crtiicised- King was accused of having a Messiah complex and SCLC of leader worship

Riots-During the four summers from 1965 and 1968 ghettos all across America erupted in violence, looting and arson

Feeling that Civil Rights had only achieved so much

Radicalisation of AA- Riots in Watts showed how combustile the ghettos were and the failure of the federal government to protect either the Freedom Summer workers or enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1964

As CORE and SNCC members took more confrontational and militant stances

Black Power is most often assoicated with the threat of violence in particular the rise of the Black Panthers