W 8 March 6 & 8
T- Eric Arnesen “Reconsidering the_Long_Civil_Rights_Movement” and Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua and Clarence Lang_”The Long Movement as Vampire”
R- Review:
Chronology and Periodization:
Classic Phase? Long Civil Rights? Social Movement? Antecedent? 1930s and 40s? Cold War? 1970s-1980s?
Historical Change:
Rupture? Continuity?
Geography:
South? Outside the South? Same?
Racial Segregation:
De Jure? De Facto? State-Sanctioned?
Civil Rights issues:
Jobs, housing, police brutality, schools, voting, public accommodations
Nomenclature:
Black Liberation Movement, Black Freedom Movement, Black Freedom Struggles
Political Objectives:
Civil Rights? Black Power? Tactics? Strategy?
Political Spectrum:
Communist? Anti-Communist? Liberal? Radical?