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Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance. African American voice in the Arts Jazz – Louis Armstrong Writers focusing on the lives and struggles of African Americans Langston Hughes. Change Must Happen. NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Thurgood Marshall - lawyer and leader

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Harlem Renaissance

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  1. Harlem Renaissance • African American voice in the Arts • Jazz – Louis Armstrong • Writers focusing on the lives and struggles of African Americans • Langston Hughes

  2. Change Must Happen • NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Thurgood Marshall - lawyer and leader • Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka, KS • Got rid of separate but equal • Linda Brown – little girl who had to travel across town to go to school

  3. Montgomery Bus Boycott - 1955 • Rosa Parks – wouldn’t give up her seat to a white man • Kicked off bus and arrested • Bus Boycott – refuse to use • Alternative methods of transportation • Question: what other ways could people get around town if they didn’t have a bus? • Martin Luther King Jr. – little known preacher, leader, “non-violence” • 381 days later the bus company gave in

  4. Moving Toward Equality • Integration – bringing the races together • Central High School – Little Rock, AR, 1957 • National Guard Ordered to STOP integration • Eisenhower ordered integration • University of Alabama – 1963 • Gov. George Wallace stood in the doorway to stop Af. American students • Question: why do you think these students wanted to go to these schools so bad?

  5. Protests • Sit-ins – protest by sitting down • Civil Disobedience – not obeying laws you feel are unjust • Freedom Riders – patrol bus system • Question: if you wanted to make real change in a law, rule or policy, how would you protest it? • March on Washington • MLK – “I have a dream…” • 250,000 people

  6. Violence Erupts • Riots – protest turned Violent • Watts 1965, Detroit 1967, others • Police Brutality – violence against citizens by law enforcement officers • Malcolm X – Nation of Islam • Stokely Carmichael – “Black Power” • Black Panthers – Oakland, CA • To protect the Af. American Community

  7. Opinion • Why do you think that some people chose non-violence in the civil rights movement and others chose violence? • Which do you think is the better choice? Why?

  8. Sad Truth • MLK – assassinated outside hotel in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray • Malcolm X – assassinated by one of his followers

  9. More Progress • Civil Rights Act 1964 • Voting Rights Act 1965 • Civil Rights Act 1968 • Activity: Summarize what these laws did using your textbook. • Affirmative Action – making special efforts to hire and enroll members of groups who have been discriminated against.

  10. Modern African American Relations • Are minorities accepted in modern culture, why or why not? • Are there any stereotypes presented through the print media about minorities? How so? • What message is the modern media telling America about cultures? • Rodney King Affair • Have we reached MLK’s dream? Will we ever?

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