HIS 356K Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Shaw University, Ella Baker, Totalitarianism
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Civil rights and the rise of the new left: or, from consensus to. From depression to cold war, general course feedback. It happened before claudette: montgomery boycott was not the result of a single, tired, angry woman. Intelligent, passionate, organized opposition to racism isn"t part of the usual story. The willingness and desire to maintain segregation by a majority of whites was a thing. Rosa parks was a poor seamstress > rosa parks was secretary of the naacp. The bus was crowded so rosa had to go to the back . > buses were segregated so she had to give up her seat to a white person. Rosa was tired > rosa refused to move for a white person: martin luther king. Ideal of the civil rights movement and the importance of young people. Programs for environment, education, civil rights, poor, urban renewal, transportation.
