Eyes On The Prize

1. They dressed like they were going to church and walked in, in an orderly fashion. They were so particular because they walked in very calm, cool and collective not wanting to harm anyone.

2. Black communities went into white stores and partook in a sit in, also parents raised money.

3. The Negro Buying Power was a boycott held in Nashville, Tennessee. African Americans stopped spending money in Nashville to allow the white downtown stores to feel the pinch in their pockets from not have negro customers.

4. African Americans who tried to shop at white owned stores had been to convinced by other blacks not to shop there. They would have to take bags out of their hands that they bought at the stores.  I Think that this was a difficult task to complete but it seems like it was pretty successful.

5. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)- it was an organization of the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. SNCC started when independent student groups began direct protests against segregation in dozen southern communities. Ella Baker advice to students was to stay independent of adult organizations.

6. President Kennedy's assistance to king helped him politically because the black community endorsed him the following day MLK was released.

7. Freedom Writers was to teach lessons of living a quality life, lessons the freedom writers taught that nothing can stop you from achieving their goals.

8. The mob was pissed about the involvement in the freedom riders so they just started at attacking random black people that they saw, bombed the buses.

9. Dr. King told everyone to say calm and that everything was alright, and that they shouldn't be afraid because we are in it together. MLK and the church gathered a rally.

 

 

WW2 and Mary McLeod Bethune

African American Soldiers In World War II Helped Pave Way for Integration of US Military
1.  In 1941, civil rights leaders convinced the government to set up all black units.
2. Double V means two victories: victory against the enemy abroad and victory against the enemy I of the home.
3. The difference in the wars were that black men were able to fight front line in the Vietnam War, they weren't able to in WW1.
4. I think that there was great pressure for the black pilots because this was there first opportunity to prove to whites that they were able to do everything they could do.

3 Women Red Tails Left Out
1. With Dr. Bethune being the head of NYA she was able to convince people to hear what she was trying to do for African Americans with aspirations of becoming a pilot.
2. Willa Beatrice Brown she helped prove that black service men earned the equal treatment that they deserved as loyal Americans.
3. Eleanor Roosevelt rode with a black pilot on a plane.
4. These women have been left out of history because they were women let alone black women and around that time blacks and women had no type of authority. They definitely weren't going give a woman recognition for a movement like this.

Standing Tall on Giant Shoulders: Dovey Johnson Roundtree and her Debt to Mary McLeod Bethune
1. Round Tree met her as a young adult, newly arrived in Washington, D.C. and looking for federal employment after her graduation from Spelman college and 3 years of teaching.
2. Dr. Bethune felt strongly of them that she enlisted her closest political ally, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the fight to bring black women into the first class of WAAC officers.
3. Dr. Bethune took the African Americans side and First Lady Roosevelt took the opposing side.
4. The past 40 years from the time of Mary's death in 1955 to the time Round Tree retired in 1996, she served as general counsel, pro bono, to the National Council of Negro Women, the organization Dr. Bethune founded. Whenever and wherever she spoke she invoked Dr. Bethune's name.
5. Dr .Bethune's impact on Round Tree was she taught her to be an office assistant also by taking her place in the WAAC.