HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: All Lives Matter, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Montgomery Bus Boycott
18 May 2016
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Beyond i have a dream the radicalism of martin luther king and the civil rights movement: martin luther king looms large in our memory of the civil rights movement. Dr. king didn"t just fight for black rights but the whole concept of all lives matter is really what he wanted. He wouldn"t like just talking about black lives matter : today, many commentators to the right criticize the black lives matter movement for. It can be agreed that black lives do matter, however, it"s just a magnification of the overall problem. This ain"t yo mama"s civil rights movement : both the left and right have forgotten the radicalism of martin luther king and the 1960s- era civil rights movement. A brief history of jim crow: reconstruction. At the end of reconstruction, many southern states put the black codes into effect. Basically these were the origins of jim crow segregation of the south: plessy v. ferguson (1896)
