AAAS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: National Welfare Rights Organization, Welfare Rights, Nina Simone
16 Sep 2016
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016
12:35 PM
Citations for finals
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Quotations: What is the quotation adding?
Question like the Blues music question from the midterm: find a specific example
General Strike: work stoppages, fight and joining the union army
Short answer questions are meant to be about a paragraph
Extra credit before Thursday
Final Paper due Midnight Monday
Final Project Due @ 5 on Thursday
Reading Notes:
● Tillmon got on welfare in 1963 because she was sick and needed to spend time paying attention
to her children
● Tillmon's goal with Aid to Needy Children (ANC) Mothers Anonymous was "to be independent if
you weren't independent, to be treated with dignity"
● 1967- The National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO)- the membership, paid organizers, and
staff of NWRO included men and women, Black People, other people of color, and whites
● Welfare activists consciously deliberated over the most fruitful strategy and turned to violence
only when more tame protests seemed ineffective
● Welfare rights activists' thoughtful and intentional use of violence in fact, parallels that of other
Black Power activists who did not seek out confrontational violence but held it in a strategic
reserve arsenal
● The welfare rights movement harnessed a central goal of self- determination
● Black welfare recipients reclaimed a positive understanding of black womanhood and elevated
their position as welfare recipients by bringing recognition to their work as mothers.
● Welfare rights activists' demands to shape social welfare policy were in essence of a call for
community control of welfare, dovetailing with a broader pattern of Black Power politics that
advocated community control of schools housing projects, and policing
Notes
Black aesthetic: art is becoming more politicized, celebration of blackness, like hair and clothes (Lol
dashikis), increased emphasis on black unity, women being portrayed with women on back and gun in
hand, but still accepting a subservient role (hotep), Nina Simone
Lecture Notes: The Black Feminist Movement:
1. Why Black Feminist Now?
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