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12 Cards in this Set
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Civil rights and the rise of the new left:
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* Rosa parks
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Respectable (to community and how she carried herself)
Activist (earliest member of NAACP) Boycott of bus thing was planned and they found Rosa parks to be the person to set it off She was also young and not super old (like most people think of her as) Poor seamstress WASNT her true identity Worked for desegregation schools |
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*Freedom Rides |
Train that traveled through the united states with documents (constitution, declaration of independent) Rosa Parks took african americans to see this to teach young people about their rights
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Cold war goes into civil rights in what two ways
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1. If you were an activist (especially white) in civil rights and you had friends opposite color you can be accused in being a communist
2. The cold war HELPED the civil right movement because civil rights was a international embarrassment. and the federal government started to get behind civil rights because they didn't want to look sloppy and lose the cold war |
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*The Old Left
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pre 1950's radicals
fighting slavery abolitionist 1820's 1830's labor movements assortment of rebels and radicals |
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*The New Left
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New in contrast to the old left
Mostly made up of students (berkley in the 60's) They conceived of themselves as a homegrown movement. They were well off and not in the state of the old left in a depression. (The right to not be segregated Right to Vote and be represented Right to jobs, education, Right to love whom you want Right to control your body The right to value the environment more than material accumulation) (should this be in here?) |
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*Brown vs Board of Education
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Overturned Plessy V Ferguson
Seperate is not equal! why significant? fundamentally disrupted the southern way of life. Education is fundamental to the american dream.* The use of social scientific evidence - Separate but equal. Its not equal if its separate (the doll test) |
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World war II
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Brings consciousness of all these issues
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Cold war liberalism
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Anxious about the dangers of radicalism
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*VItal Center
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arthur slessinger jr. was one of the key cold war liberals. he said we must seek this vital center. Pro integration and pro civil rights but he didnt want to get pulled to dangerous radicalism.
Probem with vital center people who create social change are often radicals The young radicals of the new left were opposed to liberals |
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*Emmet Till
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14 year old boy from chicago
in mississip visiting family and made a petty comment and for that he is LYNCHED! This became international news Mother paraded his coffin around to say, "LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!" |
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*Little Rock 9
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Little rock arkansas there was a confrontation in 1957
Little rock was first place to integrate. This became national news Called in federal troops because cold war |
