Civil Rights Movement Phase 2 — Freedom Summer 1964 + Fannie Lou Hamer DNC + Selma March 1965 + Voting Rights Act Aug 6 1965 + Black Power + MLK Assassination April 4 1968 — Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, Diane Nash, Malcolm X

Play Fannie Lou Hamer DNC Credentials Committee testimony Aug 22 1964 audio (1 min): 'I question America. Is this America?' Display MG-18 Track 1 1964-68.

• Play Hamer Aug 22 1964 audio
• Display MG-18 Track 1 1964-68
• Recite TWELVE PROMISES

Today completes Civil Rights Movement Phase 2. PER HALL 2005 + MG-14f: multi-leader. 1964 — Civil Rights Act July 2 1964 PL 88-352 (Lesson 19 traces all 14 stages of how-a-bill-becomes-a-law via this); Title II public accommodations + Title VII employment + Title VI federal funding; FREEDOM SUMMER (Mississippi Summer Project) June-Aug 1964 — SNCC + CORE + COFO ~1,000 mostly white Northern student volunteers organized by BOB MOSES SNCC; voter registration in Mississippi (only 6.7% Black voter registration despite ~45% population); FREEDOM SCHOOLS taught Black history + civics; 30+ Black homes/churches bombed; CHANEY + GOODMAN + SCHWERNER murdered June 21 1964 Neshoba County MS (James Chaney Black + Mickey Schwerner Jewish + Andrew Goodman Jewish; bodies found Aug 4); MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM DEMOCRATIC PARTY (MFDP) founded April 1964 — alternative to all-white Mississippi Democratic delegation; FANNIE LOU HAMER + AARON HENRY + ED KING + ANNIE DEVINE + VICTORIA GRAY; HAMER DNC CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE TESTIMONY AUG 22 1964 Atlantic City — Hamer described 1963 beating in Winona MS jail; LBJ called impromptu press conference to bump her off live TV but Hamer's full testimony broadcast on news that evening; LBJ offered 2-seat compromise (Hamer + Henry); MFDP refused: 'We didn't come all this way for no two seats.' SELMA TO MONTGOMERY March 7-25 1965 — SNCC + SCLC + Dallas County Voters League ANNIE LEE COOPER + AMELIA BOYNTON ROBINSON multi-year campaign; BLOODY SUNDAY March 7 1965 Edmund Pettus Bridge ~600 marchers including JOHN LEWIS + HOSEA WILLIAMS beaten by Alabama state troopers + Sheriff Jim Clark posse; TURNAROUND TUESDAY March 9 1965 second attempt; March 21-25 1965 third march federally protected 25,000 arriving Montgomery; JAMES REEB white Unitarian minister beaten in Selma + died March 11 1965 + VIOLA LIUZZO white Detroit civil rights activist murdered March 25 1965 driving back. VOTING RIGHTS ACT Aug 6 1965 PL 89-110 (LBJ signed) — Section 2 prohibited discriminatory voting practices; SECTION 5 PRECLEARANCE required federal approval for voting changes in 9 'covered' jurisdictions with history of discrimination; immediate impact: MS Black voter registration 6.7% → 60% by 1969; SHELBY COUNTY v. HOLDER 570 U.S. 529 June 25 2013 — Roberts CJ majority 5-4 struck down Section 4(b) preclearance formula as 'based on 40-year-old facts' (Ginsburg dissent 'throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm'); IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES: TX + NC + AL + GA implemented voter-ID + voter-roll purges + polling-place closures within days; ongoing struggles per Anderson 2018 One Person, No Vote. WATTS UPRISING Aug 11-16 1965 (6 days after VRA) Los Angeles — 34 dead 1,000 injured. BLACK POWER — STOKELY CARMICHAEL (later Kwame Ture) June 16 1966 Greenwood MS Meredith March speech: 'We been saying freedom for six years and we ain't got nothin'. What we gonna start saying now is BLACK POWER.' SNCC voted out white members Dec 1966; BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF-DEFENSE Oct 15 1966 Oakland CA — HUEY P. NEWTON + BOBBY SEALE; 10-Point Program (We want freedom + we want full employment + we want decent housing + we want education that teaches our true history + we want exemption from military service + we want immediate end to police brutality + we want freedom for all Black prisoners + we want trial by peers + we want land bread housing education clothing justice peace + we want UN-supervised plebiscite for Black colony self-determination); free breakfast program + free health clinics + community surveillance; ELDRIDGE CLEAVER + KATHLEEN CLEAVER + ELAINE BROWN + ANGELA DAVIS + ASSATA SHAKUR + FRED HAMPTON Chicago Black Panthers chairman murdered Dec 4 1969 by FBI/Chicago PD COINTELPRO-coordinated raid; COINTELPRO FBI counterintelligence program 1956-71 targeted SCLC + SNCC + Black Panthers + AIM + Puerto Rican independence + anti-war groups; ANGELA DAVIS Communist Party + UCLA philosophy + arrested 1970 (acquitted June 4 1972). MALCOLM X (Malik El-Shabazz 1925-Feb 21 1965) — Nation of Islam national spokesman 1952-64; 1964 broke with NOI after pilgrimage to Mecca + founded Organization of Afro-American Unity June 28 1964; assassinated by 3 NOI members Audubon Ballroom Harlem Feb 21 1965; Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex Haley) 1965; THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET April 3 1964 Cleveland speech. MLK 'BEYOND VIETNAM: A TIME TO BREAK SILENCE' April 4 1967 Riverside Church NYC — MLK criticized Vietnam War one year before his death; many civil-rights allies + LBJ furious; Stokely Carmichael Vietnam War critique earlier. POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN 1968 MLK economic-justice focus. MLK ASSASSINATED April 4 1968 Memphis (supporting sanitation workers strike + 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' April 3 1968) by James Earl Ray. Riots in 100+ US cities. RFK assassinated June 5 1968 Los Angeles. NIXON elected Nov 1968 'law and order' Southern Strategy. FAIR HOUSING ACT April 11 1968 (responding to MLK assassination). PER BANKS LEVEL 3 STRUCTURAL: this lesson + Lesson 16 center movement co-leaders refusing single-leader hagiography per MG-14f.

• Refusal is leadership.

  model Hamer named the violence she experienced in 1963 Winona MS jail. LBJ tried to bump her off live TV with impromptu press conference but her full testimony broadcast on news that evening. Q10 SURVIVOR-OWN-VOICE-CENTERED. MFDP refusal of 2-seat compromise: 'We didn't come all this way for no two seats.' Per Hall 2005 + MG-14f Hamer is co-leader.

  prompt Why Fannie Lou Hamer DNC 1964 testimony?
• Movements connect.

  model MLK criticized Vietnam War one year before his death; many civil-rights allies + LBJ furious; refuses MLK-as-domestic-only framing. Connects to Lesson 13 Vietnam own-voice. Per Q12 PRESENT-CONNECTION.

  prompt Why MLK 'Beyond Vietnam' April 4 1967 matters?

• Date Selma Bloody Sunday + VRA + Shelby v. Holder.
• Name 3 Movement leaders besides MLK.
• Quote 1 line from Hamer 1964.

M-8-S-CIV-15-A Photograph

5-portrait composite + 1-line bio each: Hamer (1917-1977 MFDP) + Baker (1903-1986 SNCC founder) + Rustin (1912-1987 MoW organizer gay Black) + Moses (1935-2021 SNCC MS field secretary) + Nash (1938- SNCC + Freedom Rides); refuses MLK-only framing per MG-14f.

M-8-S-CIV-15-B Photograph

Composite: Bloody Sunday March 7 1965 Edmund Pettus Bridge + John Lewis being beaten (refuses graphic per MG-15 — selects wider shot of marchers) + March 21-25 1965 third march arriving Montgomery 25,000 marchers + LBJ signing VRA Aug 6 1965 with Rosa Parks + MLK + Hamer in background.

MG-15 Diagram

MG-15 TRAUMA-INFORMED PROTOCOL card (8.5x11 laminated double-sided at every table + teacher desk) — caregiver letter in advance + Compassion Circle close + alternative-assignment options + sensory-quiet space + opt-out without penalty + n-word substituted + 'incarceration' not 'internment' + 'enslaved person' not 'slave' + 'cultural genocide' named + NO graphic imagery; explicit list of Lessons with MG-15 active: 4 (WWI), 9 (Japanese American incarceration), 10 (Holocaust), 11 (Hiroshima), 12 (Tulsa 1921 + Emmett Till + lynching), 13 (Vietnam War), 17 (decolonial violence + apartheid), 18 (9/11 + ongoing); USC Shoah Foundation + Yad Vashem + Hiroshima Peace Memorial + Densho + EJI + Truth & Reconciliation South Africa survivor-voice protocols cited.

M-8-S-CIV-15-C Audio Physical / non-image

Full audio Fannie Lou Hamer DNC Credentials Committee testimony Atlantic City Aug 22 1964 (8 min); broadcast on news that evening despite LBJ's bump attempt; classroom listening with transcript projected; teacher-led debrief.

M-8-S-CIV-15-D Chart

18x24 chart: VRA Aug 6 1965 Section 2 + Section 5 preclearance + 9 covered jurisdictions; immediate impact MS Black voter registration 6.7% → 60% by 1969; Shelby v. Holder 2013 Roberts majority + Ginsburg dissent; 2013-2024 voter ID + voter-roll purges + polling-place closures; ongoing struggles.

• Pairs: assigned 1 of (Hamer testimony + MLK speech + Malcolm X Ballot + Baker speech + Panther 10-Point); produce 3-min close-read.

  scaffold Text-specific source packet
• VNPS: outline 'I Have a Dream' rhetorical structure (anaphora + biblical allusion + American-creed appeal + concrete imagery).

  scaffold Paragraph-numbered text

• Date Selma + VRA + Shelby 2013.
• Name 3 Movement leaders besides MLK.
• Quote 1 line from Hamer or Malcolm X.

• Add 1 sticky to MG-6
• Preview Lesson 16: Long Civil Rights Multi-Movement (Chicano + AIM + Asian American + LGBTQ+ + women + disability)

• Listen to Hamer DNC 1964 audio + write 1 paragraph applying Q1 + Q10 + Q12.