Civil Rights Movement

• 1896 Jim Crow, separate but equal

• 1909 NAACP

• 1954 Brown vs. Board of Ed, integration

• 1955 Emmett Till murdered

• 1955-1957 Rosa Parks, bus boycott

• 1957 Little Rock 9-forced integration

• WWII>1959 equal on warfront, not home

• 1960, 1964 Civil Rights Acts

Civil Rights Leaders

• 1881 Booker T Washington (improve self, education)

• 1909 WEB Dubois (black activism)• 1920 Marcus Garvey (back to Africa)• 1947 Jackie Robinson• 1955 Emmett Till, Rosa Parks• Later Malcolm X, MLK Jr.

Text Comparisons

• 1937 OMM, Great Depression 1930’s, CA

• 1960 TKAM, Depression 1930’s, AL

• 2007 Great Debaters, 1935, Texas

• 1957 Raisin in the Sun, late 1950’s, Chicago

Lorraine Hansberry

• 1930-1965• Grew up Chicago’s South Side• First black woman playwright to

be performed on Broadway• Sent to segregated public school,

parents politically active, challenged discrimination

Lorraine Hansberry

• Her family-moved into a white neighborhood, took case to Supreme Court

• Attended U of WI• Became writer in NYC• Died of cancer at 34• Wrote “To Be Young, Gifted and

Black”

Raisin in the Sun

• Book version 1957• Debuted on Broadway in 1959 (Play)

Films:• Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee B&W 1961• Musical 1973• Danny Glover, Esther Rolle 1989• P.Diddy Combs, P Rashad 2008

Chicago Housing Authority (CHA)• Worst public housing-”projects”

• 28 16-story buildings

• Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini Green

• Largest concentration of poverty

• 4-mile stretch South Side

• PO refused to deliver mail

• Designed in 1930’s to segregate

• 95% on public assistance

Harlem Renaissance

• 1919-1935 (WWI-Great Depression)

• Harlem, North Manhattan, NYC

• Cotton Club, Apollo Theater

• Talented, educated black writers, musicians, artists (blues, jazz)

• Literary movement

• Dreams, black experience, identity

Harlem Renaissance Musicians

• Duke Ellington

• Billie Holiday

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Louis Armstrong

• Marian Anderson

• Lena Horne

• Dizzy Gillespie

• Jelly Roll Morton

Harlem Renaissance Poets

• Langston Hughes

• Countee Cullen

• Claude McKay

• Gwendolyn Bennett

• Zora Neale Hurston

• James Weldon Johnson

Langston Hughes1902-1967 Missouri, NYC, Harlem

Use of jazz, blues, gospel

Most famous HR poet

Use of black dialect

Traveled widely-Mexico, Africa, France

Dreams, freedom, being American, black experience, injustice

Harlem

by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

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