The Struggle for Equality: 1865-1965
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The Struggle for Equality: 1865-1965
How did the events following Reconstruction shape race relations?
Voices of Protest: Douglass, Washington, DuBois & Others
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?
DuBois: The Niagara Movement http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-niagara-movement.html
Harvard Intellectual Souls of Black Folks The Talented Tenth Niagara Movement NAACP: A Battle for All
True Americans Militancy and Struggle http://www.huarchivesnet.ho
ward.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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