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From the 50s till Yesterday afternoon

From the 50s till Yesterday afternoon. Religion & the C.Rts mvt (50s & 60s) Religion & politics since the 80s. Protest Mvt & CRts Mvt 1950s & 60s: Bkgrnd. Plessy vs Ferguson 1896 ("separate but equal" ➞) "Jim Crow" NAACP (1909 ➞ …) WW2 Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man 1952 1960s ➞ … TV

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From the 50s till Yesterday afternoon

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  1. From the 50s till Yesterday afternoon • Religion & the C.Rts mvt (50s & 60s) • Religion & politics since the 80s

  2. Protest Mvt & CRts Mvt 1950s & 60s: Bkgrnd • Plessy vs Ferguson 1896 ("separate but equal" ➞) "Jim Crow" • NAACP (1909 ➞ …) • WW2 • Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man 1952 • 1960s ➞ … TV • “Wh revolution” & Bl revolution

  3. Protest Mvt & CRts Mvt 1950s & 60s • 1954 Brown vs Board of Education • Dec ’55... Alabama bus boycott (Rosa Parks)

  4. Protest Mvt & CRts Mvt 1950s & 60s “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” cf. "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”- Frederick Douglass • MLK, Jr. (NB “Martin Luther”) • Baptist (family history) • 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott • - Southern Christian Leadership Conference • Birmingham Campaign, Alabama 1963, 65, etc • Washington, D.C. 1963 • 1964 Nobel Peace Prize • 1966 MLK in Lyon (!) • NY 1967: link C.Rts & VN • Memphis TN Apr 1968: Assassination We Shall Overcome, Some Day

  5. Bobby Seale Huey Newton Malcolm X Angela Davis Eldridge Cleaver Fred Hampton Protest Mvt & CRts Mvt 1950s & 60s • “Black Power” Nation of Islam (“Black Muslim) Black Panthers

  6. Religion in the 1960s:Opening twd other religions?Ruling out religion? • JFK (RCC) • Hippy “Mvt” - "New Age" ([variations on] Far Eastern religions) • Native Amn religions • Bl Muslims → “Bl Power” • (Supreme) Court Decisions • School Prayer: 1962, 1963 • "Lemon" Test 1971 (not the fruit…☺) • Creationism: 1968 Arkansas; 1987 Louisiana; • “intelligent design” 2005 Dover PA (not SCt)

  7. Challenges starting in the 1960s... • (Religious) diversity (JFK...) • Rapid changes in public opinion & policies • prayer in schools / creationism • Civil Rights • affirmative action • Loving vs VA 1967

  8. Challenges starting in the 1960s... • liberalization of sexual mores • pornography • "2nd wave" feminism • reproductive rights (incl abortion) • ERA (oh, well) • Lesbian/Gay Rights Mvts • Education: History / Science

  9. Jimmy Carter Meeting the Challenges • Jimmy Carter (Pres 1977-81) • "born-again" Christian • federal Education Department

  10. Robert Schuller Crystal Cathedral Aimée Semple McPherson Angelus Temple (1923) Meeting the Challenges • Mega Churches

  11. Rick Warren Saddleback Church :Rick Warren

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