SCS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Montgomery Improvement Association, Jim Crow Laws

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 1150
• Professor: Kathleen Rodgers

Document Summary

Factors leading to the emergence of the modern civil rights movement: Tripartite system of domination: (segregation and violence) separate schools, bathrooms, restaurants. Ex: rosa parks, jim crow laws- arranged that set blacks off from the rest of humanity and labeled them as an inferior race (morris, 1999: Social segregation was enforced by unofficial" police existence (kkk) violence. Undermined separate but equal and set precedent for the. Schools were not providing the same education to black students as the were to whites- the supreme court rules in favor of this claim. The crm and the mobilizing structures (morris, 1984: urbanization and the development of black institutions. Ex: by 1960, 73% of blacks were urban dwellers and this number jumped to 80% by 1965. Black colleges and universities: protest and smos. Informal organization + protest led to the development of smos. National association for the advancement of colored people.