HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Lyndon B. Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Southern Democrats
16 Mar 2016
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Poliical and social movements, legislaion, and federal programs. Culture united behind naional security, containment, and consumpion. 1950s, tensions in groups of people who were not allowed into mainstream culture seen in media, experimentaion with drugs. Jackie robinson: crossing the culture line in sports, baseball. Reconstrucion: eforts of poliical and religious formaions, enshrining voing rights in consituion. Great migraion: moving locaions, share cropping, creaion of communiies. 1930s: african american involvement in let wing poliics. Ww2: fighing fascism at home, 1942: african americans in world war 2 are ighing abroad and at home, double v campaign. 1943 march against racism in washington: threatened march on washington, execuive order 8802: fair employment pracices commitee (defense ind. ) So the march did not actually happen (scared of embarrassment) Desegregated civil jobs and in defense industries: military segregaion unit 1948, pushed people into poliilca acivism. Long civil rights movement read jaccueline dowd hall.
