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“War at Home”

“War at Home”. Social, Political, and Economic Challenges (1945-1964). ONE MOVEMENT? HARDLY…. NAACP (1909) National Urban League (1910) Nation of Islam (1930) CORE (1942) SCLC (1957) SNCC (1960) Black Panthers (1966). Many groups Many leaders Many grievances Many strategies

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“War at Home”

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  1. “War at Home” Social, Political, and Economic Challenges (1945-1964)

  2. ONE MOVEMENT? HARDLY… • NAACP (1909) • National Urban League (1910) • Nation of Islam (1930) • CORE (1942) • SCLC (1957) • SNCC (1960) • Black Panthers (1966) • Many groups • Many leaders • Many grievances • Many strategies • While MLK was recognized as “the” leader of the CRM, there were many branches

  3. Civil Rights after WWII • Continued impact of the Great Migration. • Civil rights issues “returned to the political stage.” • Supreme Court decisions: • http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_norus.html • Struck down all-white election primaries (1944) • Declared segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional (1946) • Stopped the exclusion of blacks from law and graduate schools (1950) • Jackie Robinson! • Truman’s executive order barring segregation in the armed forces.

  4. Jackie Robinson and ? Why do you think this photo has meaning? http://www.biography.com/people/jackie-robinson-9460813/photos

  5. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) • This decision, which banned segregation solely on the basis of race in public schools, was the culmination of over a decade of NAACP effort and court victories. • http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-brown.html • http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1952/1952_1/ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGHLdr-iak&feature=youtube_gdata_player • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU5kSap5UtQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  6. Emmett Till • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/ • http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/lessonplans/hs_es_emmett_till.htm

  7. Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • http://www.rosaparks.org/ • http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html • http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/ • http://www.thekingcenter.org/ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5gvNPWSuKM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  8. Elvis! • http://www.elvis.com/ • http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/elvis-presley • http://www.elvispresleynews.com/

  9. Little Rock Nine • http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=723 • http://www.littlerock9.com/ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yd78uDXskQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  10. Visual Materials from the NAACP Records,Prints and Photographs Division, Cecil Layne. Bottom Row, Left to Right: Thelma Mothershed, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Gloria RayTop Row, Left to Right: Jefferson Thomas, Melba Pattillo, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Daisy Bates (NAACP President), Ernest Green.

  11. Members of the 101st US-Airborne Division escorting the Little Rock Nine to school. Little Rock, Arkansas Sep 1957.

  12. Sit-ins • On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from N.C. A & T sat a “whites-only” lunch counter at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C. • http://hti.osu.edu/history-lesson-plans/united-states-history/civil-rights-movement • Woolworth's Lunch Counter from Smithsonian Institution

  13. Sit-ins • The next day, they came back with two dozen supporters. • The day after that, they came back with sixty-three supporters. • By the end of the week, they had hundreds of (white and black) supporters, and media attention. • After negotiations failed, arrests and a boycott followed, culminating with Greensboro and Woolworth’s giving in: the first black customers ate at a Woolworth’s counter on July 25, 1960.

  14. Sit-ins • Franklin McCain: “I probably felt better on that day than I’ve ever felt in my life. Seems like a lot of feelings of guilt or what-have-you suddenly left me, and I felt as though I had gained my manhood, so to speak, and not only gained it, but had developed quite a lot of respect for it.” • During the 18 months following Greensboro, 70,000 people participated in sit-ins in dozens of communities -- thousands would be arrested. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJF9Z9diegA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  15. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • “We affirm the philosophical or religious ideal of nonviolence as the foundation of our purpose…and the manner of our action. Nonviolence…seeks a social order of justice permeated by love. Integration of human endeavor represents the crucial first step towards such a society.” • http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/index.html • http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_student_nonviolent_coordinating_committee_sncc/

  16. Freedom Rides • In the spring of 1961, James Farmer of CORE announced plans for an interracial Freedom Ride through the South to test compliance with court orders banning segregation in interstate travel and accommodations. • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5149667 • http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Society/freedom_rides/Freedom_Ride_DBF.htm

  17. The Feminine Mystique • Written by Betty Friedan. • Published in 1963, based on a survey of her Smith College classmates. • Found a “strange discrepancy between the reality of our lives as women and the image to which we were trying to conform.” • http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp • Posed the provocative question: “Is this all?”

  18. March on Washington • http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-3.html • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOtYYreHHZQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  19. Photograph, "Civil Rights March on Washington, D. C.", 08/28/1963; NWDNS-306-SSM-4D(86)3; Records of the United States Information Agency; Record Group 306; National Archives.

  20. Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With,LOOK Magazine, Jan 14, 1964.

  21. “The Great Society” and the “War on Poverty” • The former term dates to LBJ’s State of the Union speech in 1964. • He planned to use the “political momentum of the civil rights movement, and the overwhelming Democratic majorities in the House and Senate” (and his own interest in getting elected later that year) to launch “an unconditional war on poverty.”

  22. “Freedom Summer” • On the ground in Mississippi, civil rights activists “mounted a far more radical and dangerous campaign” to challenge continuing segregation. • Launched by SNCC, the Freedom Summer project was intended to register as many black voters as possible beginning in the spring of 1964 (although they were 42% of the state’s population, fewer than 5% were registered to vote).

  23. “Freedom Summer”(reaction to) • Project workers suffered 1,000 arrests, 80 beatings, 35 shooting incidents, and 30 bombings in homes, churches, and schools. • Six workers were murdered including three that had their story depicted in the movie Mississippi Burning. • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAburning.htm • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr6QDGpihaE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  24. LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Although “the most significant civil rights legislation since Reconstruction,” it became law only because LBJ used all of his powers to help it pass -- which the book points out was very ironic! • Banned discrimination in public places; outlawed discrimination on basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; outlawed bias in federally assisted programs; authorized Justice Dept. lawsuits. • http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97

  25. African American Voter Registration Before and After Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1964

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