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The Politics of Protest [week 5]

The Politics of Protest [week 5]. The Civil Rights Movement in the USA. Non-violent protest. Violent protest. Working within the system. Identity politics and cultural change. Words and their meaning.

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The Politics of Protest [week 5]

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  1. The Politics of Protest [week 5] The Civil Rights Movement in the USA

  2. Non-violent protest

  3. Violent protest

  4. Working within the system

  5. Identity politics and cultural change

  6. Words and their meaning

  7. Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. Stokely Carmichael

  8. Reasons for the civil rights movement from the 1940s Post-Civil War United States North/South divide Apathy of federal and state institutions Limitations of political reform Limitations of legal decisions

  9. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)

  10. Key organisations Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

  11. To a degree, academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience. In our own nation, the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience. We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal’. Martin Luther King jr, Letter From a Birmingham Jail

  12. Key events Rosa Parks and the bus boycotts The Freedom Rides The Greensboro Sit-in ‘I Have a Dream’ and the March on Washington Mississippi Freedom Summer

  13. The ‘Second Wave’ Moves towards Black Power Black Panther Movement King’s assassination Government crackdown

  14. The Civil Rights Movement and The Politics of Protest Methods of protest Response of the state Legitimacy of protest Solidarity ‘Old’ and ‘new’ social movements Links to other social movements

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