AAAS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin, Claudette Colvin
Notes 7-28-16
Thursday, July 28, 2016
12:34 PM
Tuesday: 401-435
People: John Lewis
Fannie Lou Hamer
1. Montgomery Bus Boycott
1. Economic
2. Black Unity
3. Black Feminist Origins- Women's Political Council
4. Claudette Colvin
2. Emmett Till
1. 14 years old
2. Killed because alleged catcalling of a white woman
3. White men beat, shot and sunk him, and body was found three days later
4. Mom made sure that his casket stayed open at the funeral
5. July 25, 1941- August 28th, 1955
6. Money, MS
7. Visiting his relatives
8. Both men were acquitted
3. Little Rock
1. September 4, 1957
2. 9 Black students tried to enter Central High School
3. Turned away by National Guard
4. Mobs outside, verbal and physical harassment inside
4. SCLC
1. Ella Baker & Bayard Rustin
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