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| institutionalized racism that makes minorities trapped in their current situation economically. A mechanism which makes it very difficult for people to escape poverty. A poverty trap is created when an economic system requires a significant amount of various forms of capital in order to earn enough to escape poverty. When individuals lack this capital, they may also find it difficult to acquire it, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of poverty. |
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| 1964, (Selma to Montgomery something led up to this). made it so that people can’t discriminate against people of color as well as abolish the literacy clause. |
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| Selma to Montogermy March |
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| police brutality. SNCC and SCLC. prompted by Jimmy Lee Jackson’s murder. |
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| non violent christians sitting and tlking to MLK. same years as SCLC. like the non violent version of the KKK |
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| Clarence Thomas with Anita Hill, Civil Rights Movement |
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| 1991 made sexual harrassment in the work place illegal after his case organizations came about because of it. African American Women in defense of themselves. |
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| Brown v. Board, Civil Rights Movement |
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| 1954 overturned Plessy v. Furgeson. Key Players Charles Hamilton Huston and Tho |
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| NAACP (National Association for the Advancement for Colored People), Civil Rights Movement |
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1909 Fannie Lou Hamer called them the National Association for the Advancement of Certain People to highlight her belief that it was an elitist movement.
Strategies: Usage of law, non-violent, legislative action to achieve cause
People: DuBois, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Robert F. Williams; attracted the middle upper class, somewhat elitist. “Talented Tenth”
Weaknesses: only accepted certain people, slow moving. |
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| CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), Civil Rights Movement |
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1942 Strategies: non-violent, direct action; sit-ins; Freedom Rides (a lot of white people were killed because blacks and whites would ride the buses together, illicit a violent response--bombs and bus raids)
People: students, James Farmer founded, Floyd McKissick took over and made it more radical
Weaknesses: violent turn out of Freedom Rides |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Civil Rights Movement |
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1957 Strategies: non-violent direct action, result of the Montgomery Bus boycott
People: MLK, Ella Baker, Joanne Robinson
Weaknesses: sexist, women didn’t make speeches.
Opposition: white citizens council. |
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| Student Non-violent(National) Coordinating Committee, Civil Rights Movement |
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1960 Strategies: started with Greensboro sit-ins, grassroots voter education
People: Stokely Carmichael, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker
Weaknesses:sexist, exclusivity |
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| Council of Federated Orgs, Civil Rights Movement |
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1962 Strategies: Umbrella Organization of Civil Rights, attempt to bring all the groups together
People: led by Robert Moses |
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| Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), Civil Rights Movement |
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1964 Strategies: voter education, Democratic National Convention sit-in
People: Fannie Lou Hamer, Robert Moses(founder) |
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| National Black Feminist Org (NBFO),Civil Rights Movement |
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| 1973 Strategies: feminists, non-hierarchal, liberation for all |
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| Combahee River Collective,Civil Rights Movement |
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1974 Strategies: non-hierarchal, Kitchen Table Press
People: Audre Lorde, Barabara Smith
Other Feminist Movements:
-African American Women in Defense of Ourselves
-National Organization of Women |
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| Nation of Islam (NOI), Black Power Movement |
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Strategies: collect capital to start their own businesses, subtly, used religion as a foundation, armed self-defense. They taught children their “values” at a young age. Men learn how to defend women learn how to clean, etc.
People: Wallace D. Fard, Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
Weaknesses: sexism |
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| Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), Black Power Movement |
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Strategies: militant students, marxism and Black Nationalism. they did do violent things that the Black Panthers were blamed for ie. bombings.
People: Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton |
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| Black Panther Party, Black Power Movement |
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1966 Strategies: 10 point panther platform, socialism, police brutality, newspaper
People: Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Angela Davis, the Cleavers
Weaknesses: sexism, fractured |
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| Black Radical Congress (BRC), Black Power Movement |
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1998 Strategies: similar to BPP, but anti-homophobia, anti-patriarchy, panafricanist
People: Maning merable |
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