Race and Power in the Short 20th Century

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Race and Power in the Short 20th Century
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Paradoxes of Race 1914-1945

• World War I
• Segregation and the soldiers
• African-American employment
• Race Riots and Lynching
• Jazz Age
• Harlem Renaissance and apogee of the KKK
• The New Deal and Depression
• Unemployment and job discrimination
• Challenges to Plessy v. Ferguson
• World War II and the 1950s
• Armed Forces service and Executive Order 9981
• GI Bill
• 1950s prosperity and African Americans

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Brown and Beyond

• Early challenges to Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
  (1954)
• Southern reaction
• Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
• Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Movement at Flood
Tide

• Woolworth lunch counter sit in (1960)
• SNCC, CORE, and the Freedom Rides
• University Integration
• James Meredith
• Governor George Wallace
• SNCC Voter Registration Drives

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Black Militancy

• Middle Class Integration vs. Racial and
  economic equality
• Student activism
• Non-resistance vs. militancy
• Malcolm X
• Afro-Americans should not be victims any
  longerBloodshed is a two-way streetdying is a
  two-way streetkilling is a two-way street.
• Any means necessary