u.s. civil rights movement in global context
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In what ways was the African American freedom struggle, better known as the civil rights movement, part of a global movement for human rights in the 20th century?
Essential Question
The Civil Rights Movementin Global Context
• What is the difference between civil rights
and human rights?
Rights
• Civil Disobedience pioneer• 1921 – led nationwide campaigns for:• easing poverty• expanding women’s rights• building religious and ethnic amity • ending untouchability• increasing economic
self-reliance• achieving the independence of India from foreign domination.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?”
Gandhi, 1921
FDR & the Four Freedoms“In the future days, which we seek to
make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.
“The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world.
“The third is freedom from want--which, translated into universal terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world.
“The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world...”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 (emphasis added).
Eleanor Roosevelt1945 - President Truman appointed her as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. 1948 - Played an instrumental role in drafting the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1949 - Served as the first chairperson of the UN Human Rights Commission.
• Anti-apartheid activist• Leader of the African
National Congress’(ANC) armed
faction• Tried and convicted of
sabotage• Accused of being a
communist and a terrorist• Sentenced to life in
prison • Served 27 years in prison
(1964-1990)
Nelson Mandela
• First President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, serving in the office from 1994–1999
Nelson Mandela
“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.”
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela, 1993
Rosa Parks
“I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time... there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn’t hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”
Parks, 2005
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A right delayed is a right denied.”
King, 1963
King, 1962
“How is a black man going to get ‘civil rights’ before he first wins his human rights? If the American black man will start thinking about his human rights, and then start thinking of himself as part of one of the world’s greatest people, he will see he has a case for the United Nations.”Malcolm X, 1964
Malcolm X
Malcolm X in an interview while attending the Organization of African Unity in Cairo, Egypt. July 1964.
Malcolm X
• The term “civil rights” fails to encompass the cultural, social, and economic goals of the struggle.• Desegregation and voting rights were a means to achieve broader goals, such as overcoming social forces that limited freedom and opportunity.
African American Freedom Struggle
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