2. African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s
Women
“Mammy”
Large and in charge (hand on hip, finger pointing)
Men
Violent
Stupid
Drunk and/or Lazy
Overly sexual
Both
Singing, dancing, serving whites, or eating watermelon or fried chicken.

3. Strange Fruit
By Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear a 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.
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.

4. Leaders

5. Biases

6. 2 Types of Change Sought
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. SCLC SNCC

7. 2 Types of Change Sought
Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
Black Panthers

8. Actions Taken

12. Incident
BY COUNTEE CULLEN
(For Eric Walrond)
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.”
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That’s all that I remember.

15. News Coverage

16. Changes

17. Where is the movement today?

18. So which group will you choose?
Women’s Rights
Native American Rights
Disability Rights
Latino/Chicano Rights
Environmentalist Movement
Student Movement (SDS, New Left)
Anti-War Movement
Gay Rights Movement
Global Human Rights