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The Struggle for Equality: 1865-1965

The Struggle for Equality: 1865-1965. How did the events following Reconstruction shape race relations?. Frederick Douglass: Agitate, Agitate, Agitate Kansas Exodus and Exhortation to stay put No illusions but path via the Constitution Tied to GOP and demand rights.

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The Struggle for Equality: 1865-1965

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  1. The Struggle for Equality: 1865-1965 How did the events following Reconstruction shape race relations?

  2. Frederick Douglass: Agitate, Agitate, Agitate Kansas Exodus and Exhortation to stay put No illusions but path via the Constitution Tied to GOP and demand rights Booker T. Washington & Up From Slavery Tuskegee Movement emphasis on A/M Alliance with Biz USA Atlanta Compromise & ‘cast down your bucket’ Opposed to agitation? Voices of Protest: Douglass, Washington, DuBois & Others

  3. Harvard Intellectual Souls of Black Folks The Talented Tenth Niagara Movement NAACP: A Battle for All True Americans Militancy and Struggle http://www.huarchivesnet.howard.edu/9908huarnet/randall.htm Dudley Randall Philanthropy The Church Education The Courts Citizenship The Press Monroe Trotter and Boston Guardian Ida B. Welles and The Red Record DuBois: The Niagara Movement http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-niagara-movement.html

  4. The Plessy Decision, 1896 • Test Case in Public Transportation • Homer Plessy was 1/8 black • Banned despite possessing ticket • Supreme Court Decision: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=163&page=537 • Jim Crow Segregation sanctioned • No distinction for race: Justice Harlan’s dissent

  5. The Great Migration • U.S. Neutrality and booming economy • Fleeing the South by cover of darkness • St. Louis, Chicago, NY, Boston, etc • www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.html • America’s Diaspora and Reaction to it. • Conditions Up North: More Crow • Brownsville Incident, 1906 & Judge Lynch

  6. A World Safe for Democracy? • Historical Record of Black Service to U.S.A. • Segregated Units and Trouble: Spartanburg • 369th fights for France: Hell Fighters most distinguished and longest in trenches. • Journey home, you are still negroes • French Liberation versus more discrimination

  7. 1919: A Long Hot Summer • Racial Tensions and Explosive Milieu • Chicago Riots: 13 days of calamity • Blacks now beginning to fight back • Images from Birth of a Nation • Resurgence of the Klan • Lynching and Burnings • The New Negro Movement

  8. Marcus A. Garvey • Black Self Determination & Meaning • Back to Africa Movement • Harlem: Black Man’s Jerusalem • Black Star Shipping Line • Black Pride Movement • Renaissance in the making

  9. NAACP: Using The Constitution • Voting, busing, housing and education • Howard University and Jurisprudence • Herndon and Voting, 1927 • Murray versus Pearson, 1935 • Lloyd Gaines University Missouri, 36 • 1940’s cases: housing and covenants

  10. The Harlem Renaissance • Explosion of Talent • Jazz: Quintessential Musical Expression • Langston Hughes and Literature • Josephine Baker and Theatre • The Cotton Club • Other Venues of Expression

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