CLUSTER 20B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Exceptionalism, Reconstruction Era, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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The civil rights movement as a social movement. Origins- activist and exceptionalist perspectives jim crow (segregation) -- naacp double victory organizers- ella backer and award rustin montgomery and the emergence of mlk. Sncc, sit- in movement the roots of the black power movement concepts- contradiction, unintended consequences: origins- activist and exceptionalist perspectives philosophical concepts. 1948 supreme court bands restrictive racial covenant in housing. 1954 brown v board of education-- barred segregation in public school ella baker. Dec 13, 1903 - dec 13, 1986 from 1940-1945 membership went from 50,000 to 450,000. baker in the. 1940s saw that the naacp had a number of issues with respect to leadership that would o continue to call upon in her critical view of leadership during the civil rights period. She witnessed the power struggle between the naacp"s executive secretary, walter white, and web dubois who after resigning in 1935, returned in 1944, only to be fired by white four years later.
