title:
Class Lecture: Overviewing the Civil Rights Movement
description:
Recording of a lecture from James Farmer’s The Civil Rights Movement in the 20th Century class. Farmer discusses Booker T. Washington (00:00), W.E.B. DuBois (06:55), the struggle against lynching (25:11), the desegregation of schools (29:08), the early days of CORE (31:20), the Montgomery Bus Boycott (32:39), the Greensboro sit-ins and ensuing nationwide movement (34:23), the formation of SNCC (38:38), the Freedom Rides (31:39), and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts (44:06). Farmer then moves to discuss the continuing struggle against racism (44:32). He addresses continuing racial disparities in education, income, health, and family structure (45:32).
subject:
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
subject:
Civil rights -- Law and legislation -- United States
subject:
Freedom Rides, 1961
subject:
Sit-ins (Civil Rights)
subject:
Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
subject:
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
subject:
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
subject:
Lynching
subject:
Race discrimination -- United States
subject:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
subject:
Segregation in education
creator:
Farmer, James, 1920-1999
creator:
University of Mary Washington
contributor:
HIST 428 Spring 2020
publisher:
University of Mary Washington
relation:
The James L. Farmer Collection
rights:
Copyright is retained by Special Collections and University Archives, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington. This item is available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Items may not be reproduced or used for any commercial purposes without prior written consent from the University of Mary Washington.
