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Langston Hughes
ClaudeMcKay
Countee Cullen
GwendolynBennett
Strange Fruit
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“OR DOES IT EXPLODE?”
pp. 447-460
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1946 Committee on Civil Rights
• Recommended– That the Civil Rights section of the Dept. of Justice be
expanded– That there be a permanent Commission on Civil Rights– That Congress pass laws against lynching and to stop voter
discrimination– Creating new laws to end racial discrimination in jobs
• Motivating reasons– Morality – A matter of conscience– Economics – Discrimination is costly to the country,
wasteful of our talents– International concerns – Our image is suffering
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“Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
Emmett Till
…lynched in Mississippi in 1955
Emmett Till
• From Chicago, visiting family in Mississippi• Accused of offending a white woman in her grocery
store• Tortured, shot in the head, and his body drowned by
the woman’s husband, Roy Bryant, and Bryant’s half-brother, J.W. Milam
• Till’s mom, Mamie Till Bradley, decided to have an open-casket funeral
• Bryan and Milam were acquitted • This event became a galvanizing moment for the
burgeoning Civil Right’s Movement
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1957 – Little Rock Nine ...
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382 days ...
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... 1961 – Freedom Rides
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