Black Women in America

Class Agenda 3/31/2009

1. Book Reviews Returned

2. Research Papers due April 2, 2009

3. Schedule for Mastery Quiz #5 Reflection Paper II

4. Today—Civil Rights Timeline

5. Library Articles – Hooks on Feminist Theory (2 Articles)

a. In Founder’s Library

Civil Rights Movement --- was the result of the work of countless people (mainly women) who believed in the doctrine, “democracy for all.” The issues that were at hand were social, economic, and political.

Main ideology--- was to fight against institutionalized racism and against 2 major ideologies: 1) separate races 2) white race was superior

Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Claudette Colvin

• Has been called "the mother of the modern civil rights movement". She was born in Alabama, and in 1955, at the age of 15, she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white person, in violation of local law. Her arrest preceded that of Rosa Parks' by nine months. In the months following the incident, Colvin became pregnant, thus making the NAACP question whether or not she was a "reputable" face for the civil rights cause.

Fannie Lou Hamer

• She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity. Her plain-spoken manner and fervent belief in the Biblical righteousness of her cause gained her a reputation as an electrifying speaker and constant champion of civil rights.

Vivian Malone Jones

• Vivian Malone Jones defied segregationist Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace to enroll in the University of Alabama in 1963 and later worked in the civil rights division of the U.S. Justice Department.

Famous Civil Rights Cases and Demonstrations

• Brown V Board of Education

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders Demonstration

• Little Rock Nine

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