POLS 251 Lecture Notes - Earl Warren, Sharecropping

• School: U of S
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 251
• Professor: David York

Document Summary

Monday: read chapter 3 in the social movement reader chapter two: Rohoda lois blumberg the civil rights movement. Blumbergs proposes, among other things, that important structural changes occur in american society during the 20th century. These developments create opportunities for the civil rights movements to emerge and catalyze. Structural economic changes: argiculture subsidization of ag continued (to keep land out of production) but few sharecroppers received theses subsidies increased mobilization substantially affected labour requirements you have a labour force who is without work. By 1960, 73 percent of black people were urban and by 1965, the figure had risen to 80 percent (p. 16). By 1960, about half of the black population lived outside of the most repressive areas the old slave states (p. 16). What was the last impact of these changes, according to blumberg? how they are interconnected. Fdr creates the first national fair employment practise commission. Truman, in 1948, ends segregation in the armed forces.