Race and Politics of Reconciliation (Fall 2008)

University of Virginia
Tag cloud for these 5 episodes
African-Americans Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Desegregation Education Law Pacifism Prince Edward Women encyclopedia letters

Episodes

  1. Citizens Appeal to the White House to put an end to Lynching
    date May 19, 1918map Brooks, Georgiatags letters, Women

    On 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....

  2. Prince Edward Free Schools Association
    date August, 1963 to August, 1964map Prince Edward, Virginiatags 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...

  3. Bayard Rustin and Israeli Air Support
    date June 28, 1970map New York, New Yorktags Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights, Pacifism

    In 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...

  4. Publishing War over a Negro Encyclopedia Rages on in Correspondence
    date April 27, 1931 to December 23, 1936map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags encyclopedia, African-Americans, Education

    In 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,"...

  5. NAACP's Litigation Strategy in Prince Edward County
    date May 1, 1948 to December, 1956map Prince Edward, Virginiatags Civil Rights, Prince Edward, Law

    The 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...