Cornell Notes # 7, Epilogue:
“The King of Love is Dead”
Main Ideas (review, clarify &
synthesize notes to just the
main points/most important
aspects):
Student Name: Erin Saul
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Assigned Reading or Film Title:
“This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed”
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Author’s Last Name, Chapter, and Page numbers:
Cobb, Epilogue: “The King of Love is Dead”, Pg: 227-237
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Notes (write and review main notes / bulk of notes):
Core members weren’t
allowed to speak
Schools such as USC thought of them as “too controversial.” Riots often
occurred in the North, filled with antiblack protests.
Carmichael calls for Black
Power all around the country
Many newscasters were filled with fear from his words. Believed that he had
violent intentions with his words and didn’t focus on the idea of unity.
Debates about self-defense
Believed that the presence of the deacons at the riots were unnecessary. “No
place for guns,” said Reverend Theodore Seamons. Civil rights workers knew
of the danger that was bound to happen, thankful for the armed.
Mississippi shows
discrimination against African
Americans
Creates an all-white “regular” delegation at the national convention. Didn’t
follow the rules for the national convention. This causes fury for the
Democratic Party, since they rejected the idea of a black Mississippi
delegation. Carmichael and other members if SNCC travel to Alabama to
encourage others on the idea of Black Power.
Lowndes County Freedom
(LCFO)
Carmichael and SNCC members help created this group. Their idea is to “fight
back if we had to.” November 1966, in Lowndes County, showed an increase
of African American voters compared to whites. LCFO candidates lost, due to
pressure from whites to vote for the white candidates instead. This then caused
20% of the African American voter population to not participate. Despite
losing noticed an increase in number of voters overall throughout the years.
Influence on young African
Americans
Before weren’t as aware of the Southern movement due to its idea of
nonviolence. Became largely influenced due to Carmichael’s words of the idea
of Black Power. This had garnered a new idea of the SNCC.
Summary (brief breakdown of the notes from the right column which includes an analysis of what you read
and your own ideas about the points made. The summary must be at least three or more sentences):
Stokely Carmichael had been a bridge for many of African Americans to help unite due to the idea of Black
Power. This idea of Black Power had been a crucial idea because many people at the time were racially
separated due to the constant protests all around the country particularly in the South. The idea of Black
Power had influenced many African Americans at the time, this had shown an increase in voters among
African Americans and had given the SNCC a new look.
