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Black American Experience and Civil Rights Movement

Black American Experience and Civil Rights Movement. African American Abolitionists. Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave The North Star. Slavery, Emancipation, End of Slavery, Reconstruction and Civil Rights. Slavery issues in American history

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Black American Experience and Civil Rights Movement

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  1. Black American Experience and Civil Rights Movement

  2. African American Abolitionists • Frederick Douglass • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave • The North Star

  3. Slavery, Emancipation, End of Slavery, Reconstruction and Civil Rights • Slavery issues in American history • Emancipation Proclamation • 13th Amendment • 14th Amendment • 15th Amendment • RECONSTRUCTION

  4. Civil Rights Act of 1875 • "all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude" • Civil Rights Cases (1883) • The 14th amendment applies to government, not to private actions of individuals – hence the the federal government does not have authority to outlaw racial discrimination by individuals and organizations • Civil Rights Act of 1875 – unconstitutional • segregation sanctioned

  5. Plessy v. Fergusson (1896) • New Orleans – a quite peculiar place… • Lousiana Separate Car Act (1890) • Citizens’ Committee to Test the Separate Car Act (Comité des Citoyens) (30’’) • Homer Plessy • racial segregation in public facilitiesCONSTITUTIONAL under the doctrine of "separate but equal."

  6. Jim Crow and disfranchisement • literacy clauses • grandfather clauses • segregation

  7. Booker T. Washington • Tuskegee Machine – Tuskagee Institute • Integration and assimilation • vocational education

  8. W. E. B. DuBois • political representation • pan-Africanism • Niagara movement • The Philadelphia Negro (1899), • The Souls of Black Folk (1903), • John Brown (1909), • Black Reconstruction (1935),

  9. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1909)

  10. Marcus Garvey • UNIA – Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities (Imperial) League • Back-to-Africa movement • Liberia • Black nationalism • Black Star Line

  11. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) • racial segragation ruled to be a violation of equal protection Clause of the 14th Amendment • Plessy v. Fergusson overturned

  12. Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) • Rosa Parks • One year long boycott • Result: Alabama segregation laws ruled unconstitutional • Result: Martin Luther King Jr. Steps into national limelight • Result: Civil Rights Movement first major victory

  13. Martin Luther King • I Have a Dream (August 28, 1963)

  14. Malcolm X • Elijah Mohhammed • Nation of Islam • (1h07m40s 1h52m40s) • Ballot or the Bullet (April 3, 1964) (1’38’’) (4’48’’)

  15. Black Panther Party • First Black nationalist • then socialist • Huey Newton & Bobby Seale • COINTELPRO • Summer Olympic Games in Mexico 1968 • Black Power Salute (Silent Salute) (Tommie Smith & John Carlos) (35m20s) • Avery Brundage, IOC • The Olympic Project for Human Rights

  16. Legacy • Jesse Jackson • Louis Farrakhan • Jeremiah Wright controversy

  17. Civil Rights Legislation • J.F. Kennedy • Lyndon B. Johnson • Affirmative action

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