POLI 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fugitive Slave Laws, Black Separatism, Nonviolent Resistance
15 Jun 2018
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Stuff in the News
Now that the tax bill has passed both houses need to pass the same version.
Substance
As you may be aware it can be hard to speak about race.
Slavery is sort of protected in the constitution.
Spoke about race within some of court case; Brown v. Board of education.
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view regarding race is the same that maybe other individual have.
Literary quotes:
-the pole of the th etuy is the pole of olo lid.
____ talks about that citizens needed an other to find themselves against. ell e ae ot the. He
said that slavery hurt white and black. He said that the US racial problems are permanent. It is also true
that race shapes the way a country thinks, and how you draw the lines in a state/country based on racial
consideration. Important topic.
In the US and elsewhere race is controversial in terms of science. The genesis of human species. Even
though race is not a biological fact, for example no genetic code, but there is more variation within even
groups that have been relatively close.
In 2010, 9million americans claimed that they were inter-racial. Growing trend to identify beyond the
start categories or growing awareness people more mixed than they might know. 63% white, 17% black.
Even though race is very real politically. Controversial scientifically. Race is America is not just an issue of
black and white, but historically that’s lagely.
Chronology:
- 1619-when African slaves were brought to Virginia
- 1787-guarantees the constitution of slavery/continue slavery
- 1808-deportation becomes legal
- 1822-denmark vessie, slave he purchased his freedom, then he wanted to kill all white people in
Charleston
- 1831-Turner
- 1839-a slaveship was seized by the africans who were on it
- 1850—the fugitive slave law.
- 1854-runaway slave is recaptured in Boston.
- 1856- Dred scott
- 1859-john brown, slave rebellion, he sought to liberate slaves
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- 1863-emancipation proclamation-free the slave in confederate states by Lincoln
- 1864-13th amendment
- 1870-15th amendment
- 1876-the end of reconstruction
- 1895-Blacks must achieved economic independent first-bokety Washington.
- 1896-Plessy . Feguso sepaate ut eual is okay said y the outs
- 1903- W.E.B dubois.
- 1954- Brown v. Board of education = separate but equal is inherently wrong
- 1955- Rosenpark arrested
- 1964-Civil rights act
- 1965-assisanation of Malcom X
- 1965-Voting rights act
- 1966-black panthers are found
- 1968-found that America is different societies, one black, one white.
- 1968-assissanation of Martin Luther King
- 1990s-OJ “ipso edit, Roy Kig hy at e get alog
- 2005—Katrina
- 2008-Barack Obama president;black liberal
- 2013- Black Lives Matter
- 2015- confederate flag is taken down in carolina
- 2017-March by Nazis and KKK.
- Looking forward, around 20 years from now, supposedly that is when white would not be in the
majority anymore in the US
Demonstrates how race has been important in the US.
Presidents “outhern “trategy –Nixon
Richard Nixon will be the leading man here:
By ay aouts, ost pesidets hae’t doe uh i tes of iil ights. If pesidets do ot ty to
get things better, things will not get better on their own.
2 presidents stand out from acting out: Lincoln and Johnson
-Lincoln author of the proclamation, but Lincoln was not all together a racial progressive. He came to
embrasse emancipation late in life, as a younger man he had other views. He was indifferent about race
when he was a younger man, he wanted to split the difference on race. He spoke about race very rarely
and when he would, he would mix misogynist and race. He finally denounce slavery. He was trying to
enforce equality.
-FDR: in part he repeated suggestion of his wife.
-Truman: he desegregated the military.
-Eisenhower: authoritative issue when looking at the segregation.
-JFK: wanted to be favorably perceived, he was instrumental though
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Document Summary
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