mississippi: is this america?
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Mississippi: Is This America?. “This is Mississippi, the middle of the iceberg. This is a tremor in the middle of the iceberg from a stone that the builders rejected.” -- Bob Moses, 1961. 1720-1835 . 1835-1865 . 1865-1876. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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“This is Mississippi, the middle of the iceberg.
This is a tremor in the middle of the iceberg from a stone that the builders rejected.”
-- Bob Moses, 1961
Mississippi: Is This America?
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1720-1835
1835-1865
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1865-1876
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Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce, U.S. Senators from Mississippi, both African American
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Two Members of the Ku Klux Klan in Disguise, 1868
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Thomas Nast’s 1874
cartoon entitled “Worse Than
Slavery”
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The “patchwork quilt” of Reconstruction and Redemption
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1890 Mississippi
1895 South Carolina
1901 Alabama
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The Rise of Segregation: The Strange Career of “Jim Crow”
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Three Pillars of White Supremacy
• Segregation• Voter disfranchisement• Extralegal violence and use of criminal justice
system [concept of “legal lynching”]
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Voter Disfranchisement
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The Scourge of Lynching
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. . . and “Race Riots”
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1940-1954
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Charles White.The Return of the Soldier, 1946.Pen and ink on illustration board.Prints and Photographs Division.Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-4886 (8-19)
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1954
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1955
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“I want the whole world to see what they did to my baby. . . .”
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MediaWhat role do the media play
in shaping perceptions of a social movement and its antagonists?
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1960
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Julian Bond and SNCC activists
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1961
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CORE Freedom Riders after attacks on their Greyhound bus outside of Anniston, Alabama
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Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
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Alabama Governor John Patterson
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Freedom Riders arriving in Jackson, Mississippi, where they were promptly arrested
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“And people ask why we are down here. . . .”
Fundraising advertisement published by SNCC
in its newsletter, The Student Voice, in 1964
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1962
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October 1, 1962: James Meredith (center) is escorted by Federal officials including U.S. Department of Justice
Attorney John Doar (pictured on right) at the University of Mississippi.
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Defenders of segregation at Ole Miss
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U.S. Marshals arrive in Oxford in Army trucks
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September 30, 1962: Students riot in response to James Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss.
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October 1, 1962: Soldiers remove arrested rioters from the Ole Miss campus
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August 18, 1963 - Meredith graduates from the University of Mississippi
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1963
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Medgar Evers, assassinated on June 11, 1963
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Martha Prescod, Mike Miller, and Bob Moses register voters in the Mississippi countryside, Fall 1963
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1964
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Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson, Jr.
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See notes
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COFO Freedom School in the Mississippi Delta, Freedom Summer, 1964
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Edie Black teaches a freedom school class in Mileston, Mississippi, Freedom Summer, 1964.
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Fannie Lou Hamer campaigning for the MFDP
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James Forman of SNCC
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Roy Wilkins of the NAACP