Race and Politics of Reconciliation (Fall 2008)
University of Virginia
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African-Americans Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Desegregation Education Law Pacifism Prince Edward Women encyclopedia lettersEpisodes
- Citizens Appeal to the White House to put an end to Lynching
May 19, 1918
Brooks, Georgia
letters, WomenOn the night of Thursday, May 16, 1918 assailants killed white farmer, Hampton Smith in his home and wounded his wife in Brooks County, Georgia. The next night a white mob lynched two black men in conjunction with Smith's murder. By Sunday a mob lynched two tenants of Smith, husband and wife, Hayes and Mary Turner, while another black man went missing, also believed to be involved in Smith's death....
- Prince Edward Free Schools Association
August, 1963 to August, 1964
Prince Edward, Virginia
Desegregation, Civil Rights, Education"We will oppose…with every facility at our command, and with every ounce of our energy, the attempt being made to mix the white and Negro races in our classrooms. Let there be no misunderstanding, no weasel words, on this point: we dedicate our every capacity to preserve segregation in the schools." - Virginia Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr. Dr. Neil V. Sullivan arrived in Prince Edward...
- Bayard Rustin and Israeli Air Support
June 28, 1970
New York, New York
Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights, PacifismIn 1970 Bayard Rustin gathered many civil rights leaders and black public officials in support of an appeal to Washington. This appeal pushed for the U.S. government to supply Israel with fighter jets for protective purposes. Their appeal, in the form of a full-page ad in the New York Times, was sponsored by the A. Philip Randolph Institute of which Rustin was the executive director. This action...
- Publishing War over a Negro Encyclopedia Rages on in Correspondence
April 27, 1931 to December 23, 1936
Dist Columbia, District of Columbia
encyclopedia, African-Americans, EducationIn a 1936 letter to Dr. James H. Dillard, the Charlottesville philanthropist affiliated with the efforts to fund and improve black education in America, Dr. Carter G. Woodson wrote of a recent loss of staff on the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History due to the efforts of Anson Phelps Stokes, Thomas Jesse Jones and others. Considered by Woodson as the "promoters of the Negro Encyclopedia,"...
- NAACP's Litigation Strategy in Prince Edward County
May 1, 1948 to December, 1956
Prince Edward, Virginia
Civil Rights, Prince Edward, LawThe NAACP's litigation strategy against school segregation went through a drastic change during the summer of 1950. Instead of working within the confines of Plessy v. Ferguson, which declared the constitutionality of the "separate but equal doctrine", the NAACP decided that the time had come to force the courts to reconsider segregation. Prior to 1950, the NAACP only tried cases where they could...