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Department of Criminal Justice California State University - Bakersfield CRJU 477 Terrorism Dr. Abu-Lughod, Reem Ali The American Case. Civil Rights Movement Struggle for equality Intrastate transportation 1955 Birmingham, Alabama Rosa Parks Martin Luther King
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Department of Criminal Justice California State University - Bakersfield CRJU 477 Terrorism Dr. Abu-Lughod, Reem Ali The American Case
Civil Rights Movement • Struggle for equality • Intrastate transportation • 1955 Birmingham, Alabama Rosa Parks • Martin Luther King • Collective nonviolence • Mahatma Gandhi
Black Power • June 1966 civil rights activist James Meredith • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) led by Stokely Carmichael • Nation of Islam & Malcolm X • Advocating political independence • Black Panther Party for Self Defense
New Left • “old left” orthodox Marxist ideologies, politics • New Left mid-1960s, anti war movement, civil rights mov’t, women’s rights, etc… • Students for a Democratic Society: direct action • Revolutionary Youth Mov’t: towards tailoring the orthodox ideologies
New Left: challenge to American Mainstream • Became known as the “counterculture” • Left Wing T in America: (please be prepared to discuss some of the incidents) 1. Kent University in Ohio 2. Jackson State University in S.C.
Leftist Radicals: Case in Point • The Black Panthers 1966 Oakland CA • Inspired by Malcolm X, Frantz Fanon and Mao Zedong • FBI Director Hoover: threat to domestic security • “disinformation” campaign
Case in Point: • Weatherman group “weathermen” 1969 in Chicago • “crazies” • “Days of Rage” 4 days long • Bernardine Dohrn praised Charles Manson murders • Victims as “pigs” • Bombings: the Pentagon, Gulf Oil corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, Harvard war research center, U.S. Capitol, police stations, ROTC buildings, National Guard facilities
The Symbionese Liberation Army • Mid 1970s, Donald DeFreeze • “Death to Fascist insect that preys upon the people” • 1974 Patricia Hearst kidnapped more than 50 days • Fugitive for more than a year • The Stockholm Syndrome
Animal Liberation Front & Earth Liberation Front • ALF: protesting animal abuse • ELF: abandon criminal activities • Property damage and vandalism • Destruction of forest station in Oregon • Poisoning Mars candy bars
The Christian Right: • Protestant fundamentalist • Conservative political environment of 1980s • President Ronald Reagan • Protests at abortion clinics
Antigovernment Patriots: Please be prepared to discuss cases • Ruby Ridge, Idaho tragedy 1992 • Waco, TX tragedy 1993 • Create one-world government “New World Order” • The conspiracy theory
The Christian Identity Creation Myth • Non-Whites: Mud People • Jews descended from Satan • Aryans the Chosen People
White Aryan Resistance and The KKK (1800s) • White supremacy, racial tension • Neo-Nazi movement • Neo-Nazi T, Racial Holy War is Inevitable (RAHOWA)
Army of God • Opposes abortion and homosexuality • Gay and lesbian targets • Abortion clinics Phineas Priesthood • Oppose abortion, homosexuality, interracial mixing, Whites who degrade White racial supremacy
Concluding Remarks • The New T in The U.S. • Changing Face of T • Leftists and rightists ideologies • Historical underpinnings of T in America • Lynching, slavery and the Civil Rights