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A History of Violence: 20 th Century Civil Rights Tom Husar - AIHE

A History of Violence: 20 th Century Civil Rights Tom Husar - AIHE. A M I. W H O. Homer Plessy. Jimmy Thompson’s Travelling Electric Chair. First Victim = Willie Mae Bragg - 1940.

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A History of Violence: 20 th Century Civil Rights Tom Husar - AIHE

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  1. A History of Violence: 20th Century Civil Rights Tom Husar - AIHE

  2. A M I W H O Homer Plessy

  3. Jimmy Thompson’s Travelling Electric Chair

  4. First Victim = Willie Mae Bragg - 1940

  5. “A story went the rounds about a San Francisco white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, ‘Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.’” (from Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

  6. “Just carve on my tombstone, Here lies a Black man killed fighting a yellow man for the protection of a white man."

  7. Thurgood Marshall • Sweatt v. Painter (1950) • McLaurin v. Oklahoma (1950)

  8. Segregation and Education: Pre Brown Decision

  9. September 8, 1954: Fort Myer, VA

  10. Rosa Parks Enters History “People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

  11. “The Great Society was shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam”

  12. A B C D E

  13. Busing in Boston: 1976

  14. “No man has a right in America to treat other men tolerantly for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.” Wendell Wilkie – 1940s Republican Politician

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