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

Lecture 14 - From Sit-Ins to Civil Rights. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement have become embodied in each other. But in this lecture, Professor Holloway asks: what of the other activists in the struggle? What of the other organizations involved in the struggle? And what of the history of the struggle before King reluctantly emerged on the scene? By uncovering the histories of the Montgomery bus boycott, the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, the death of Emmett Till, the Greensboro student sit-ins, and the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one finds differing responses to violence and multiple approaches to attacking racial bias and discrimination. Professor Holloway also draws attention to the gender dynamics of the civil rights movement by considering the inner-workings of the Women's Political Council in Montgomery, Alabama, the original motivating force behind the 1955 bus boycott, and the great importance of respectability to the movement. This lecture reveals that there was no single civil rights movement, that there were many activists working in a variety of different ways and with varying degrees of success, and that King was a complicated figure, both inspiring and stifling activism.
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Lecture 14 - From Sit-Ins to Civil Rights

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks
[00:10:57] 2. Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement: Emmett Till
[00:20:09] 3. Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement: The Little Rock Nine
[00:26:09] 4. Narratives of the Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King, Jr

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Lecture 14 - From Sit-Ins to Civil Rights
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)