USA- AREA STUDIE
OUTLINE:
Chapter 10 pages
44-48
Mark & Map
Textbook
(Circled Object
Words)
Underlined Definitions & Facts
Black Talent
<- in the arts and music flowered in the
1920’s, 30’s and 40’s in Harlem within New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
<- produced novels, inspired poetry,
philosophical writings by Alain Locke, the first black to win an Rhodes
scholarship to Oxford University in England, the music of Duke Ellington, Louis
Armstrong, singers and painters.
Great Depression
<- in the 1930’s was difficult for all
Americans, more for blacks. When welfare aid or jobs were given out, the whites
got them first, the blacks had to wait or get none at all.
World War II
<- caused an employment boom for both whites and blacks.
And a lot of blacks and whites signed up to go to war, but the whites went to
training camps and the blacks had to wait. 4,000 blacks were serving in the
forces but only in support units such as; supply, construction, food service and
transportation.
“Soldiers not servants” <- On December 1,
1941 the
blacks were given full rights to serve in the Army and Air Force. The
332nd Fighter Group that served in France and Germany were
awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation, individual pilots received a total of
904 medals. They symbolized the blacks struggle for full equality and the end of
segregation in the armed forces.
Black Leaders
<- felt that people themselves would have to take action to
end discrimination an denial of civil rights. Rosa Parks was arrested because
she would not give up her seat on a bus to a white person.
NAACP
<- the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People,
planned a course of action to end segregation on buses by boycotting school bus
services that bused children to schools outside their neighborhoods. This went
on for a year and it worked. A lot of different people and churches helped to
take students to school, but the bus company’s lost a lot of money. This was an
non-violent protest in Montgomery, Alabama in the late 1950’s. On November 13,
1956, the Supreme Court decided that segregation on buses was
unconstitutional.
Martin Luther King Jr. <- who
could move millions to action and touch the conscience of
the nation took another step to extend Civil Rights. In 1963, King and thousands
of marchers went to Birmingham, Alabama to do a non-violent march in this bad
discriminatory city. But the police arrested 1,000 marchers, later the police
got dogs and clubs to stop marchers. Because of all the news, the city finally
desegregated their public facilities. On August 28, 1963 King marched again in
the nation’s capital city of Washington D.C. with over 250,000 people of all
races to demand that the government keep it’s promise of “justice for
all”.
I Have a Dream…
<-
King’s greatest speech of two dreams; the first, that one day the sons of
former slaves and slaveholders would sit together at one table. The second
dream, that his four children would not be judged because of the color of their
skin but by the content of their character.
Assassinated-
<- King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. A true
hero of the Civil Rights Movement. This caused riots in several cities in the
United States.
Black Middle Class
<- continues to grow. 1989 there were 44% blacks
held “white color” jobs—managerial, professional and administrative positions
rather than service jobs or jobs requiring physical labor.
Education-
<- 23.5% of blacks between the ages of 18 and 24
have enrolled in colleges and universities. A lot get academic and sport
scholarships for hard work and talents.
Government-
<- Some blacks have achieved great heights in government,
Colan Powell, is the secretary of state to President George W. Bush, Miss Rice
is the President’s advisor to the state. There are several governors of states
and mayors of some of the largest cities in the USA.
Important People-
<- three of the past were Booker T.
Washington – founder of Tuskegee Institute (education), George Washington
Carver-world renown botanist, and Mary McLeod Bethune - promoter of
equal education for black women. present time are 1983, Guion S.
Bluford Jr. a black astronaut went to space, 1988, Jesse Jackson once
an aid to Mr. King, was a contender for the Democratic Party to run for
president; 1991 Douglas Wilder, the first black governor to announce his
bid to run for the presidency.
TEST ON NOV.
30TH – 1st Class Chapter 7 & 8; 2nd Class
Chapter 9 & 10
HOME WORK: Read Chapter 11,
Mark & Map Textbook
Box & Alphabetize Subject Titles and Number Paragraphs.