African-American History ~ Cold War Civil Rights

Cold War Civil Rights

Cold War

Democracy versus Communism

As the world’s exemplary democracy, America ostensibly stood for life, liberty & pursuit of happiness and offered to extend this system around the world.

Soviet Union pointed to American race relations as an example of American hypocrisy.

McCarthyism affected the careers of leading African-American activists:o Paul Robesono W.E.B. DuBois

International Opinion

Gunnar Myrdal, et. al., An American Dilemma (1944)

U.N. Declaration of Universal Human Rights (1948)

UNESCO “The Race Question” (1950) “We Charge Genocide” (1951) Pan-Africanism African & Southeast Asian Liberation

Movements• Ghandi’s Resistance to British Rule in India• South African “Defiance Campaign” (1952)• Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya (1953-1961)• Ghanaian Independence (1957)

Route 40 Racism

Legal Victories Against Segregation

Segregated Education1. Missouri ex. rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938)2. Sweatt v. Painter (1950)3. McLaurin v. Oklahoma Board of Regents (1950)4. Brown v. Board of Education (1954 & 1955)

Segregated Transportation5. Mitchell v. U.S. (1941)6. Morgan v. Virginia (1946)7. Henderson v. United State (1950)8. ICC Ruling (1955)9. Browder v. Gayle (1956)

Movement Victories

1. Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)MIA -> SCLC “Passive Resistance”

2. Integration of Little Rock Central H.S. (1957)

3. Expansion of Southern NAACP• Robert F. Williams (NC) ~ armed

resistance• Megar Evers (MS) ~ boycotts

Brown v. Board of Education

Prejudice & Personality

Massive Resistance

The Problem We All Live With

Emmett Till

Southern Voting Patterns

African-American History ~ Cold War Civil Rights

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Transcript of African-American History ~ Cold War Civil Rights

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The Cold War Part I. Origins of the Cold War Part II. Cold War Clashes in the 1950s

THE COLD WAR THE COLD WAR. THE COLD WAR What was it & why did it happen? Part I.

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The Cold War 1947- 1991 Review, The Cold War Review, The Cold War.

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World War II and the Cold War Dictators and War Mobilizing for War Roots of the Cold War The Cold War Expands.

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Cold War The Early Years Cold War The Early Years.

Origins of the Cold War Origins of the Cold War The Cold War Heats Up The Cold War Heats Up The Korean War The Korean War The Continuing Cold War The Continuing.

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