Week 8

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?