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?

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The Struggle for Equality: 1865-1965

How did the events following Reconstruction shape race relations?

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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