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AFAM 162: African American History: From Emancipation to the Present

Lecture 08 - Migration and Urbanization (continued). In this lecture, Professor Holloway expands our understanding of "The Great Migration" by looking at what happens when African Americans settled in Northern and Midwestern cities. He examines the 1917 East St. Louis race riot, the 1919 Chicago race riot, and the NAACP's Silent Protest Parade from New York City's Fifth Avenue to Harlem. The second portion of the lecture is on African American soldiers' experiences abroad during World War, their rising expectations for citizenship rights when they return, the new militancy that they espoused, and the racial backlash against them by whites. Black soldiers, returning to the U.S. after risking their lives in war, were lynched in uniform. Responding to this backlash, Professor Holloway shows how civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois and poet Claude McKay foreshadowed the new political climate in which African Americans would assert their rights. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 08 - Migration and Urbanization (continued)

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. W.E.B. Du Bois Editorial: "Close Ranks"
[00:06:43] 2. East St. Louis in 1917
[00:11:44] 3. Chicago in 1919
[00:16:53] 4. The Start of World War I and Du Bois' Call to Close Ranks
[00:23:47] 5. W.E.B. Du Bois Editorial: "Returning Soldiers"
[00:30:12] 6. Claude McKay Poem: If We Must Die

References
Lecture 8 - Migration and Urbanization (continued)
Instructor: Professor Jonathan Holloway. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Dawn of Freedom
Lecture 02 - Dawn of Freedom (continued)
Lecture 03 - Reconstruction
Lecture 04 - Reconstruction (continued)
Lecture 05 - Uplift, Accommodation, and Assimilation
Lecture 06 - Uplift, Accommodation, and Assimilation (continued)
Lecture 07 - Migration and Urbanization
Lecture 08 - Migration and Urbanization (continued)
Lecture 09 - The New Negroes
Lecture 10 - The New Negroes (continued)
Lecture 11 - Depression and Double V
Lecture 12 - Depression and Double V (continued)
Lecture 13 - The Road to Brown and Little Rock
Lecture 14 - From Sit-Ins to Civil Rights
Lecture 15 - From Sit-Ins to Civil Rights (continued)
Lecture 16 - From Voting Rights to Watts
Lecture 17 - From Voting Rights to Watts (continued)
Lecture 18 - Black Power
Lecture 19 - Black Power (continued)
Lecture 20 - The Politics of Gender and Culture
Lecture 21 - The Politics of Gender and Culture (continued)
Lecture 22 - Public Policy and Presidential Politics
Lecture 23 - Public Policy and Presidential Politics (continued)
Lecture 24 - Who Speaks for the Race?
Lecture 25 - Who Speaks for the Race? (continued)