explain the role white supremacy played in American life throughout the mid-twentieth century. How does Wright learn to navigate the world of white supremacy and what does that say about the American value of equality of opportunity?
Issues to Consider:
• Plessey v. Ferguson (1896)
• Booker T. Washington
• WEB DuBois
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Niagara Movement
• 1919 Race Riots
• Marcus Garvey
• Ku Klux Klan
• Scottsboro “boys”
• Mary McCleod-Bethune
• “Double V” Campaign
• Executive Order 8802
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• “Little Rock Nine”
• Emmett Till
• Clark “Doll Experiment”
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Martin Luther King, Jr./SCLC
• Sit-in
• Dianne Nash
Lectures to Consider:
• “The Segmented Society”
• “Progressivism”
• “The Legacy of World War I
• “From Boom to Bust”
• “Making a New Deal”
• “And Then Came the War”
• “The Arsenal of Democracy”
• “Cold War America”
• “The Rebirth of Civil Rights”
• “The Other America”
Readings to Consider:
• Washington, Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition Speech, p. 451.
• The Southern Mercury, “The Colored Brother,” p. 494.
• WEB DuBois, The Talented Tenth, p. 501.
• The Liberator, “Tulsa,” November 9, 1918, p. 544.
• Langston Hughes, Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, p. 560.
• LULAC News, “Editorial” (1945), p. 601.
• Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream, p. 673.
• Declaration of Constitutional Principles (1956), p. 675.
• Fannie Lou Hamer, “Testimony Before the Credentials Committee,” p. 677