POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: White Supremacy, Lunch Counter, Social Movement Theory
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Lecture 11 - politics from below. Thursday, november 19, 2015. Black people are forced to obey and not go to places claimed by whites. Official and unofficial system of physical segregation (blacks from whites) Saw blacks inherently inferior to whites. Everywhere, though in different ways. The laws varied by state. South, born in the north. City, county, state = norms different. Beaches - certain places blacks could come once in a week. Official practice (backed by law) Separate facilities for black and white. Tipping hat (to any white person of any age/gender) Yielding sidewalk (walk in the street) Ma"am / sir (address any white person regardless of age like this) Backed by use of force. Most of these at most times had state backage. Don"t associate jim crow with segregation of theatres, etc. associate it with the emit story. It was about equality, liberty, justice. Collective political struggle (people coming together) Sustained over time (movement is not a single event)
