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Decade of the reconstruction 1867-77: First timein history that blacks occupied elective offices.

Civil rights movement 1955-1965:The essence ofthis period is the purity and morality of the civil rightsmovement of non -violent protest.

Civil rights movement 1965-1979: Moving intoother areas of leadership, politics, economics and government


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Racial segregation: By law, public facilitiesand government services such as educationwere divided into separate "white" and"colored" domains

Disfranchisement: Black voters were forced

off the voting rolls. The number of AfricanAmerican voters dropped dramatically, andthey no longer were able to electrepresentatives.


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Exploitation: Increased economic oppressionof blacks, Latinos and Asians, denial ofeconomic opportunities and widespread ofemployment discrimination.

Violence: Individual, police, organizational,

and mass racial violence against blacks.


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The reconstruction program abolished thewhite governments in the Confederate statesand gave power to the rulers of the five

military districts of the Confederacy. At thattime the 13th,14th and 15th amendmentswere constitutional legacies of the

reconstruction and blacks were allowed tovote


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BY THE END OF 19TH CENTURY

THE INFLUENCED OF BLACKS INSOUTHERN POLITICS WAS

VIRTUALLY NONEXISTENT


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African-American civilrights organization formed in1909.

Mission: ensure the political,educational, social, andeconomic equality of rights

of all persons and toeliminate racial hatred andracial discrimination.

W.E.B Du Bois
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Brown v. Board of Education 1954 Direct action

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery BusBoycott 19551956

Marthin Luther King and theSCLC

Greensboro sit-ins 1960

Ocuppy stores and public places

SNNC and the freedom rides


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Birminghams Campaign 1963-1964

Buildings ocupations, protests in churches and

marchs.

Kings detention Letter from Birminghan jail The Children Crusades

Kennedys support

Washington March 1963

For Civil Rights Law approval

Kings speech


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Non-violent massive mobilizationsClaiming civil rights recognition to vote

Next stepmaterializing it

Civil rights No longer a moral issue but apolitical and economic issue


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The Congress of US passed the Voting Rights

Act in August 1965.

It was a landmark victory in the battle for

African American equality.


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Black Power was a form of both self-definitionand self-defense for African Americans.

It called on them to stop looking to the institutionsof white America act for themselves, bythemselves, to seize the gains they desired,including better jobs, housing and education.

Within the Black Power is founded in 1966 theBlack Panther Party.


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THE TEN POINTS PROGRAM4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.5. We want education for our people that exposes the true

nature of this decadent American society. We want education

that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-

day society.

1. We want freedom. We want power to determine thedestiny of our black Community.

2. We want full employment for our people.

3. We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our

black Community.

6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service.7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder

of black people.

8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state,

county and city prisons and jails.

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9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be triedin court by a jury of their peer group or people from theirblack communities, as defined by the Constitution of theUnited States.

10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing,justice and peace. And as our major political objective, aUnited Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throughoutthe black colony in which only black colonial subjects will beallowed to participate for the purpose of determining the will

of black people as to their national destiny.


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Beginning in the 1960s, the term affirmativeaction was used to refer to policies and initiativesaimed at compensating for past discrimination on

the basis of race, color, sex, religion or nationalorigin.

Over the next decades, the Court has limited the

scope of affirmative action programs, whileseveral US states prohibited racially basedaffirmative action.


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Historical background of racialsegregation, disfranchisement,exploitation and violence

By 70s black leaders are gainingpublic offices and achievingmore positions of influence

From latest 60s civil rightsmovements took other directiontowards electoral politics andeconomics arena

acts of non-violent protestand civil disobediencesuch as boycotts, sit-insand marches during the

50s and 60s

Great legislative

achievements such asCivil rights Act of 1964,Voting right act of 1965among others.


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We are unique in America because we canchoose whether to try to change this country

by taking up the bullet or taking up the ballot..

Malcolm X


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Introduction

Traditional view

Historical development

Common points

Anti-feminist feminism

Conclusion FEMINISM


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MEN ARE THE BREAD-WINNERS;

WOMEN ARE THE BREAD-BAKERS


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FRENCH REVOLUTION1789-1799

BEGINNING OFABOLITION MOVEMENT

USA 1830

Great War

1914

2nd HALF20th CENTURY

Nancy Cott said that

Womens hands were needed

in order to help to carry on this

situation.

The Feminist Movement became more

important:

Not only legally recognized but

socially.


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Focused on the problem

that has no name.50% to 70% of women

complained about their

situations at workDemands:

- control over their bodies

- decision whether to

reproduce.


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By the early 1970s, the advances of the civil rightsmovement had combined with the rise of thefeminist movement to create an African-American

women's movement.

The National Black Feminist Organization wasfounded in 1973.

Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman inCongress in 1968.


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Elizabeth A. Sadowski:traditional woman who

was against abortion.

Donna Carlson:

considered Feminists as

selfish individuals.


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Elizabeth Bird


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Jonas, Gilbert.Freedoms Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle AgainstRacism in America,1909-1969 (New York: Routledge, 2005)

Brown v.Board of Education,1954, excerpts

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