HIST 2112 1st edition Lecture 28 Outline of Previous Lecture I II III IV V The Fabulous Fifties Why the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s The Legal Approach early 1950s The Civil Disobedience Approach A successful Legacy Outline of Current Lecture I WW II II Cold War III Consumerism IV Violence Current Lecture I II WW II Fighting Nazis white supremacist regime We are being hypocrites o The African Americans see that we are condemning the Nazis but we aren t treating the African Americans equally o African Americans point out that they don t have equality equal rights 3rd KKK is created Truman integrates government employees and military Cold War International Relations o We look weak because we are not united in our country Our Constitution says we are the land of the free but we weren t giving freedom to everyone International Pressure o To Secure These Rights A publication that says African Americans all over the world won t be our friends because of how we treat the ones in our country The article doesn t say we should treat African Americans better because of what our country stands on but because These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute we will then have better relations with other countries that will help us III IV Consumerism Economic engagement of African Americans o The Bus Boycott 1955 Montgomery Economic resistance o Rosa Parks Trained activists from the Highlander school The school taught civil disobedience Ghandi used civil disobedience to rebel Martin Luther King Junior knew about this because Highlander school taught it Brown vs Board of Education o Legally desegrates schools repeals separate but equal o All deliberate speed no timeline A lot of private schools were created Arkansas 9 o National Guard stops the 9 African Americans from attending the high school o The President sends in the 100 Airborne to the school to ensure the African Americans are allowed to attend the school and are safe while being there Violence Emmett Till went missing because he talked to a white woman The boy was beaten to death and at his funeral his body was on display because the mother wanted to show the world what the men had done to her son Freedom Rides o At most stops they were beaten up
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