HIST 3121H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Literacy Test, Kerner Commission, Black Leather Jackets
5 Apr 2016
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Voing rights act of 1965: abolished discriminatory pracices, literacy test, property rule, outlawed inimidaion of blacks trying to vote, validaion on the naional level, increase in the number of blacks able to vote. Emerged as an alternaive king: became involved in the underground world in boston, drug dealing, numbers. Eventually ended up in prison: while there he read and read. Changes name from litle to x (removed his slave name, x stands for missing african name) Elijah muhammed led the naion of islam: combines aspects of islamism teachings with the plight of african americans, develop a racial history of the world, whites were devils- descendants of an experiment gone wrong. Wicked white race developed to take revenge of the good black people of. Meca: all white people are devils- blue eyed devils, they take over the world, try and assert control over people of dark skin. Racial oppression and exploitaion of african americans.
