TR3.5

Civil Disobedience & Evolution of Democracy

Huxley Marvit 2022-04-25 Mon 11:36

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1 Civil Disobedience & Evolution of Democracy

title: Assignment
The Civil Rights Movement did not start after WWII, nor did it end in 1960s. Your resources for today are in Files, Unit 3, Civil Rights Folder.

Copy or print the document "**USH Civil Rt ppt pdf**" - this will give you an outline for the presentation: **zoom_0;mp4**. You are encouraged to watch on x125 speed and pause where needed for note taking; submit notes to canvas before the end of the period for credit.

**After finishing the presentation, look at the assignment due for Thursday and begin working on that.**

1.1 live notes

Thoreau as the origin :: Thoreau → [Gandhi → Mandela] → King

  • rebels against the gov,
    • about duty.

nonviolence, etc, all goes back to Thoreau

1877 reconstruction was aborted resurgence of racism, KKK, etc - birth of "separate but equal" fallacy

also the ideological conflict about how to move forward like discussed in KBxWEBDuBois, and jackie robinson as discussed in KBxFencesBaseball

1950s end of separate but equal w/ rosa parks - super hard to actully get to work, as not many other options for transport

next comes the civil right movement in the middle of the cold war climate - led to people trying "to paint king 'red'" ie. make him look like a communist

1960 election brought about a massive medium shift - first televised debates! - nixon looked bad (sweaty ect.) - but kennedy wore makeup, and looked young and strong and ect. - made a huge difference, and example of technological shift changing the landscape

significant amount of domestic terriorism, media was important

"the function of a civil resister is to provoke a response" -Gandhi

'accepting the firehose' as the model for how to resist.

voting rights act gets passed 1965

malcolm x was also super important assasinated..

whole bunch of assasinations actully

1990s we get rodney king and etc.

seeds to all kinds of other movements