Black Arts Movement

By dariusteng

  • Rosa Parks arrested

    began boycott and Civil Rights Movement
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    Civil Rights Movement

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    beginning protest of the Civil Rigths Movement

  • Amiri Baraka's trip to Cuba

    encouraged him to develop passionate style in his BAM works
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    Race Riots

  • March on Washington, "I Have a Dream"

    MLK's protest and famous speech

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    outlawed discrimination, but enforcement was difficult at first

  • Harlem Riot of 1964

    rioting after protests to suspend a police officer were unsuccessful

  • The System of Dante's Hell by Amiri Baraka published

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    Black Arts Movement

  • Malcolm X assassinated

  • Bloody Sunday

    peaceful Selma to Montgomery protesters attacked by police and state troopers, emotional peak of Civil Rigths Movement. After this event there was change in public opinion, people began viewing segregationist movement almost as a terrorist movement

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed

    outlawed the discriminatory practices which prevented many black people from voting

  • Watt's Riots

    reaction in Los Angeles against arrest of a man who was accused of drunk driving,his mother and brother were arrested after arguing with police, took place six days, 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, $40 million in property damage

  • the term "Black Power" becomes social and political slogan

    after March Against Fear, protest against racism where organizer was shot. Stokely Carmichael coined the term Black Power in a speech in response to the killing

  • San Francisco unrest

    this event, along with Watt's Riots, caused the formation of the Black Panther Party

  • Black Panther Party for Self-Defense established

    formed in Oakland to protect black community from police injustice

  • Tales by Amiri Baraka published

  • Detroit Riot

    caused by police raid of an illegal bar, lasted eight days, 43 dead, 467 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed

  • Republic of New Afrika movement begins

    called for African-American country within the South

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

  • King Riots

    riots broke out across the country as a reaction to the assassination of MLK Jr.

  • 22 teachers and administrators dismissed from Ocean-Hill Brownsville schools

    started New York City teachers' strike of 1968
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    New York City teachers' strike of 1968

    caused when predominately black school board of Ocean Hill–Brownsville abruptly dismissed teachers and adminstrators, almost all white and Jewish. strike causes growing tension between African Americans and Jews

  • Black Panther Party becomes major target for the FBI

    FBI Director described the party as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country"