CRS 360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Trade Union

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Communication and Rhet Studies
• Course: CRS 360
• Professor: Professor Feyh

Document Summary

A people"s history of the us by howard zinn. Civil rights and black power: revolts. Poetry and art: the harlem renaissance. The mask was off for many black poets . I, too by langston hughes: tomorrow, i"ll be at the table . Gwendolyn bennett: i want to feel the surging of my sad peoples" soul . Margaret walker: let a bloody peace be written in the sky . Communist party associated with concerns of race inequality. Hosea hudson: along with angelo hudson, arrested in georgia for insurrection . President truman: 1946 committee on civil rights. Employment equality suggested, but not enforced by the government: 1948. Truman orders integration in the armed forces. 1954: court strikes down separate but equal , took over 10 years for 75% of southern school to be desegregated. Call for citywide bus boybott: led to much violence.