This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the African-American push for workplace equality as the economy changed after World War II. Their efforts in the post-war years would spark the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Franklin D. Roosevelt's recognition of the growing power of black voters and the group of African-American advisors he listened closely to, known as the "black cabinet."
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Professor Esther Katz of New York University says that the New Deal presented new opportunities for women to organize grassroots movements, but their achievements did not last long beyond the New Deal.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Espionage Act, which regulated anti-war speech during World War I and made it a federal offense to say, do, or publish things that interfered with the war effort.
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Professor Manning Marable of Columbia University tells a famous anecdote about W.E.B. Du Bois, when he was accused by federal law enforcement agents of being subversive.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary looks at Booker T. Washington. Emancipated as a slave, he rose to become one of the most respected black educators at the head of the Tuskegee Institute; however, he was also accused of accommodating whites and accepting racism against blacks instead of fighting it.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the early-20th-century setbacks in civil rights, as racial segregation was common on rail cars, in schools, and in the workplace.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the decades after Reconstruction. These years were a difficult time for African Americans, but new black leaders began to emerge in the 1800s who gave a voice to black suffering.
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Participants in this workshop will travel throughout the Delta as they visit sites where significant events occurred. They will discuss and learn about issues involving civil rights and political leadership, immigrants' experiences in the Delta, the Blues, the great migration, agriculture, and the Mississippi River, among other things. They will sample Delta foods, visit local museums, and listen to the Blues. Field trips will roam as far as Greenville, Greenwood, and Memphis, with stops in between.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the women's suffragist movement's evolution from idealistic to pragmatic.
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