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Project Report: Oral History and the History of the Civil Rights Movement - Kim Lacy Rogers, The Journal of American History, Vol. 75, No. 2 (1988), pp. 567-576 The civil rights movement of the early 1960s was one of the most significant events in the modern history of the United States, one that has elicited much examination and research by historians. An era that saw the power and influence of the movement play an integral role in the eradication of legalised segregation and the disenfranchisement of African Americans. Given the historic importance of the civil rights movement, this paper aims to examine Dr Kim Lacy Rogers ‘Oral History and the History of the Civil Rights Movement’, published in the Journal of American History in 1988. A Professor of History and American Studies at Dickinson College, much of Rogers research was centred on African American communities in the American South. She was the author of numerous oral history related books and her reputation was that of a renowned and influential expert on the subject. Rogers outlines the difficulties of chronicling all of the facets of protest movements into the narrative framework of American history. The sheer volume of individuals engaged in protest as well as what she describes as …show more content…

However she offers a springboard to seek out such literature on the African American movement in the North where many of the narratives contend that by focusing on the mainstream leaders in the 1960s south actually diverts from the very different strategies used by African Americans in the North. One of the main highlights of Rogers article is the fact that rather than look upon civil rights being a single, cohesive movement it is “a far more complex process that engages ordinary individuals and not simply a matter of great men and legislation”

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The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s stands as a pivotal chapter in American history, a testament to those who fought for racial equality and justice. Among the notable figures who emerged during this transformative era, John Lewis, a prominent Civil Rights activist and later influential congressman, played a crucial role in shaping the movement's improvement. In his graphic novels, March: Book 1 & March: Book 2, Lewis narrates his personal journey and growth within the Civil Rights movement. Through his narratives, Lewis not only offers a firsthand account of the struggles and triumphs experienced by activists, but also utilizes literary and rhetorical devices to construct a focused and analytical argument examining his evolution within

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As Hunter mentions, “By the end of the (19th) century, African Americans had deployed a multitude of strategies in the workplace, in their neighborhoods, and in the political arena to protect their personal dignity and the integrity of their families and communities”. In order to address these topics, she recurs to newspaper articles, personal testimonies, historical documents, and photographs, among others; in order to compile a series of life experiences that give proof about the complex situations that African American communities faced and their relation to the organizing process of African American

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Throughout the book, it is notable that the author tries to depict how life was in the year of 1964, providing the reader important information about historical events that happened at the time. The story starts in the first of July, a day before the signing of the civil rights act. The author chose to utilize this date since it is an important clue about the historical background of the book, as the United States approaches towards the civil rights act. The signing of the civil rights act is definitely demonstrated in the scene where Rosaleen watches the news on the television. The news states that; "Today, July second, 1964," he said, "The president of the United States signed the Civil Rights Act into law in the East Room of the White House."

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During the 1960’s civil rights movement hundreds of blacks were unlawfully arrested and beaten in attempts to end segregation. Many civil rights leaders such as John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King jr. and professor, Jim lawson strived to teach and demonstrate others how to bring equality peace by using non-violence methods. Marching, protesting, and participating in sit-ins tested the strength, morals, and dignity of John Lewis and others. The trilogy March, tells a story about a young farm boy, John Lewis, who was inspired to help end segregation and how he used non-violence at protests, marches, and sit-ins.

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Jim Crow was not a person, it was a series of laws that imposed legal segregation between white Americans and African Americans in the American South. It promoting the status “Separate but Equal”, but for the African American community that was not the case. African Americans were continuously ridiculed, and were treated as inferiors. Although slavery was abolished in 1865, the legal segregation of white Americans and African Americans was still a continuing controversial subject and was extended for almost a hundred years (abolished in 1964). Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South is a series of primary accounts of real people who experienced this era first-hand and was edited by William H.Chafe, Raymond

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On June 6th, 1966 James Meredith began a “March Against Fear” to promote black voter registration and defy the entrenched racism of the region. Meredith’s original plan was to walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi; however, on the second day, he was shot by an unknown gunman and hospitalized. (21) While Meredith suffered in the hospital other leading figures of the civil rights movement stepped in to carry on his efforts. In Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear, Aram Goudsouzian provides an excellent account of those involved, their ideological differences and the tensions between them not only in the March, but also within the Civil Rights Movement. Meredith getting shot and

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An African American journalist by the name of Carl Rowan recounts in his book, South of Freedom, his six thousand mile journey through the south in 1951. Rowan was a journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune and reported in depth on the Civil Rights Movement which led him to write his first book South of Freedom in which he talked about racial divide from all over America. After the civil war the racial divide became greater and segregation became a social norm which created even worsening tension between whites and African Americans. South of Freedom examines in great detail the culture of fear that developed from ignorance and lack of understanding of things that different or not normal. The intimate nature of Rowan’s journalism is what makes it so enticing to the reader, human emotion and experience is very evident in Rowan’s writing which gives a personal connection to the men and women Rowan talked to on his journey, nothing was held back and it gave us an incredible

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She explains how African Americans and Native Americans have both experience racial violence in America since the beginning, stating “Our work today is evidence of the unfinished status of planetary struggles for equality, justice and freedom”. She has spoken about her deep emotion on the topic of racial violence and discrimination in America, wanting listeners to understand what is really going on in order to unify the country. The emotion Davis has while speaking

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In the 1830s, the light of African-American self-determination and opportunity would keep on being conveyed by the African-American community and a minority of enthusiastic whites. In spite of the fact that the battle for social justice and racial balance is a long way from being done, the endeavors and unlimited responsibility of high contrast abolitionists ought to move future eras of blacks and whites to battle the isolating inclinations of human instinct and U.S. household strategies. The fight against racial shamefulness must be driven by those gatherings who are experiencing most it, however, these gatherings should likewise take the lead of Richard Allen in demonstrating the recipients of 60 structured mistreatments, for example, Benjamin Rush, exactly how biased and smug they truly are. At that point and at exactly that point can highly contrasting America meet up in the battle to correct the shameful acts of America's supremacist past. Allen ended his autobiography by saying “"We deemed it expedient to have a form of discipline, whereby we may guide our people in the fear of God, in the unity of the Spirit, and in the bonds of peace, and preserve us from that spiritual despotism which we have so recently experienced--remembering that we are not to lord it over God's heritage, as greedy dogs that can never have enough.

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In this essay I would distinguish motivations to migrate of black Americans, means and consequences of the Great Migration, black migrants in the press and how did they were described and the cultural diversity after relocation, that are stated in the article. As a result of finish of the slavery in 1865, black Americans did what they have never done before: just stopped the protests and put down hoes, beginning moving from their places of work, where they spent almost the whole lives (Mathieu, S.-J., 2009). The article states that they were using migration as one of the first and most thrilling steps to the right of self-government and movement as a politicized reaction to their area 's social and economic level of life. At the same time, African Americans migrants used movement as a symbol of their liberty, as an

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John Lewis introduces his book March, to readers to express his journey into the Civil Rights Movement. He uses aspects like his surrounding and the prominent issues in not only his life but around him. He illustrates how events leading to the Civil Rights Movement and his involvement within his community to show where he is today. The book shows how racism, segregation, and civil rights have evolved through qualities like community and the change in politics. Lewis shows through March how geography, society, and politics reflect the involvement of activism toward civil rights leading up to the inauguration of Barrack Obama.

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This included documenting the not only the history of the Black Americans but also on the White Americans and how they responded to the civil rights movement. Historians in this new narrative began to investigate the positives of the movement which moved away from the racial violence and the death of Martin Luther King Junior. Historians began to investigate the role taken by the federal government in support of the Civil Right movement in the Deep South and how the use of non-violence which agreed well with the northern liberals and the federal government. These lectures analysed how the narratives of history can change over time to explore different experiences and outcomes of the same

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The civil rights movement and American literature The civil rights movement changed American literacy a lot. During the civil rights movement people used their words as a weapon against society. Before the Civil Rights movement there was the Harlem Renaissance.

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