1. HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION:
1648 TO PRESENT
What is a Civil Rights Movement?
2. I.
WWII and Civil Rights
A. Rights in the 1930s & 40s
1. The Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXX6ER9_I2s
3. Lawrence H. Beitler. Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith Postcard. Marion, Indiana. August 7, 1930.
4. Strange Fruit (1939)
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
5. I.
WWII and Civil Rights
A. Rights in the 1930s & 40s
1. The Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
2. A Jim Crow War
"Why Should We March?" March on Washington fliers,
1941. A. Philip Randolph Papers, Manuscript Division
(8-8) Courtesy of the A. Philip Randolph Institute,
Washington, D.C..
6. I.
WWII and Civil Rights
A. Rights in the 1930s & 40s
1. The Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
2. A Jim Crow War
Toni Frissell. Tuskegee Airmen, 1945. Silver gelatin print.
LOC Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction
Number: LC-F9-02-4503-330-5 (8-6)
7. I.
WWII and Civil Rights
A. Rights in the 1930s & 40s
1. The Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
2. A Jim Crow War
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.
1945
8. I.
WWII and Civil Rights
A. Rights in the 1930s & 40s
1. The Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
2. A Jim Crow War
Double V Campaign
9. I.
WWII and Civil Rights
A. Rights in the 1930s & 40s
1. The Lynching of Thomas
Shipp and Abram Smith
2. A Jim Crow War
Left: Isaac Woodward
Right: Charles White.The Return of
the Soldier, 1946. Pen and ink on
illustration board. Prints and
Photographs Division. Reproduction
Number: LC-USZC4-4886 (8-19)
10. I.
WWII and Civil Rights
A. Rights in the 1930s & 40s
1. The Lynching of Thomas
Shipp and Abram Smith
2. A Jim Crow War
3. The G.I. Bill
• Low cost mortgages
• Low-interest loans for business
• Tuition & living expenses for college