Complexities involved in American racism

  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