The History Of Africans In The United States

Using chapters 19-21, write a 3 to 4 page essay responding to the following questions: • What factors explain the growing tensions between SNCC and SCLC and the increasing criticisms of Martin Luther King, Jr. by SNCC workers? • Explain how the Freedom Rides, the Birmingham Campaign, and the Selmato-Montgomery march became a crucial turning point in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s? • How successful were Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. in providing ideological and tactical guidance for the mass protests of the 1960s? • What was the purpose of the March on Washington? Did it achieve its goals? • Explain the emergence of and sudden popularity of the “Black Power” slogan.