HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Southern Manifesto, Massive Resistance, Black Church
10 Sep 2017
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Agenda: this week: citizens" attempts to improve the post- war world, political and social movements, legislation, and federal programs, today. Looking specifically at the civil rights movement. Executive order 8802: fair employment practice committee. Long civil rights movement: read jacqueline dowd hall, importance of late 1930s political consciousness and activism. Who did new deal programs help: intensification of post wwii era of. Unequal distribution of federal resources and policies. Spatial segregation with suburbanization and urban renewal: patterns of privilege and exploitation were not just souther & northern. Responses civil rights unionism : coalition between labor and civil rights activists rotted 1930s, intellectual emphasis: race and class, wwii, international consciousness. A rising wind of anti colonialism: goal: expanding new deal protections, incl. in industrialized south. Wage protections and affordable housing: also: antiracist labor feminism. Nonviolent direct action: montgomery (al) bus boycotts ("55-56) Helped vault mlk jr. to national spotlight: sit-ins.
