HIST 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lunch Counter, The Takeaway, Mexican Americans

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 351
• Professor: Leonard Moore

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Freedom riders when they were arrested in mississippi: kennedy admin: expressing idealism of american idealism and values, thinking in terms of international ideas, but the direct action strategy is bringing the. Kennedy admin into the domestic issues into the civil rights movement. Undercurrent of conflict: north/south split: sense among african americans in the deep south that perhaps northerners don"t understand the depth of the hatred and the thickness of the racial barrier in the south. Within days of this, there is another horrible reminder of the extent of massive resistance and opposition to the civil rights movement: in birmingham, where the city is still trying to recover from this month-long. Malcolm little became malcolm x: malcolm x converted to islam while in jail, emphasized being a morally upright person and being someone who would reject white society and the idea that white society would somehow embrace african.