AFRICAM 27AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Atlanta Race Riot, Black Nationalism, The Talented Tenth

• School: Berkeley
• Department: African American Studies
• Course: AFRICAM 27AC
• Professor: Dr. Leigh Raiford

Document Summary

Reconstruction 1865 - 1877 consciousness: african americans test freedom through right to vote, plessy v ferguson separate but equal , people who are biologically different can"t be the same, must be separate because they are separate. The jim crow era: segregation, constantly delineate differences using signage ( colored and white , constantly reminded that black people are inferior through popular and mass culture. Atlanta race riot 1906: gubernatorial race, candidates used positions of power to create fear and insight violence. Viii: 1920"s: 834,000 african americans left south for northern cities, 1930: > nation"s african americans lived in south but african american identity moved north, 1901 - 1970: 1. 5 million black people left south. Harlem, ny: the negro capital of the world: malcolm x moved from detroit to ny, proliferation of black politics and culture, many different extremes. Dubois imagines a group of black, educated cultural elites who would lead their race.