HIS 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, Emmett Till
18 Jan 2017
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How successful has it been? (did the civil rights movement succeed, fail, or just end?) Early steps at desegregation: 1948 desegregation of armed forces. And a. philip randolph threat to boycott draft. This pattern of external pressure and insider efforts. People in order to make this stuff happen. Refusing to sign up to have number called. All african americans in labor union boycott the draft. Bringing in jackie robinson aa baseball player. Met with massive resistance from other teams. Last to get around to adding a single non white aa player: insider, runs brooklyn dodgers. Dodgers are first: 1940s-6(cid:882)s, congress of racial equality, (cid:498)core(cid:499) To have segregated buses that drive from one state to another. Willing to pressure that and put to test. 40s to 50s and even to 60s. Civil rights activists and sees if this right is actually in use. Begin bus boycotts in montgomery: (1960s) student nonviolent coordinating committee (sncc)
