Emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of College Students. A lot of College Students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Movement came from people who were probably no older than you in this room. I want you to remember that. College students were the main force in terms of the Civil Rights Movement. Okay. I want us to keep that in mind when we talk of the evolution of this movement. Ill begin the lecture by discussing the decade of the 1950s because the 1950s really provide, i think,
Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you, those of you in this room know who i am but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of college students. A lot of college students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Moveme
Not even past. And in this way we, as a nation, who we are because of who we were. Hidess not a nation that from its history or hides its history from its history books. And indeed one reason why we can are is, in of who we part, because of who we once were, a nation that divided its own citizens by race. Root and branch Charles Hamilton houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the struggle to a storyegation tells of how two men, two lawyers, take this country from where we were to where they knew one day could be. Thexplores how the moment, brown v. Board of education about. Came brown is not the miracle it is often purported to be. Unanimoushat it was a decision still stands as judicial miracle but the Supreme Courts decision in brown v. Board of education was the result of careful planning and a careful strategy by Charles Hamilton houston and enacted by houston marshall. Od in 1935, walter white, who was secretary of the naacp, and truly an extraordinary character in his right, an extraordi
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