To what extent did the methods and goals of the Civil Rights Movement shift significantly from the mid-1960’s onwards?

To what extent did the methods and goals of the Civil Rights Movement shift significantly from the mid-1960’s onwards?

From the mid-1960's onwards, the methods and goals of the Civil Rights Movement shifted. One method that changed was the way the African Americans handled themselves. The Black Panther was a group of African Americans that didn't agree with the way the SCLC was handling things. They took the violent approach, instead of the nonviolent approach. White people used different methods too. The FBI was getting  involved with stopping the Black Panthers because they were considered dangerous by the American public. In order to stop them, the FBI used African American informants. The Black Panthers goals were the same, yet different. They wanted to have their rights, but they also wanted to help the poor in their community.

Also in the 1960's and onwards, prison riots were "created". At Attica Prison in New York, the inmates were poorly treated, so the 1200 of them took over the prison with hostages. Their goal was to be treated better in prison, getting the same rights as white people in prison. None of them unreasonable. The white police officers had a certain method for dealing with them. The Governor refused to accept their requests, so he sent federal troops to the prison. They killed 29 inmates and 10 hostages.

Chapter 26-4 terms and names

• H-bomb = the hydrogen bomb-- a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower= president of the U.S. at this time
• John Foster Dulles= his secretary of state, staunchy, anti-Communist
• brinkmanship= the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retailiation for any aggression
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)= a U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments.
• Warsaw Pact= a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satelittes.
• Eisenhower Doctrine= a U.S. commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957.
• Nikita Krushchev= Became the new Soviet Union leader after Stalin died. Believed that Communism would take over the world some day, just like Stalin believed, but he thought it could triumph peacefully.
• Francis Gary Powers= U-2 Pilot.
• U-2 incident= the downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960. 

Japanese Americans: Internment Camps and other facts

First source is an interview kind of thing from a Japanese American who now works as the "Global Head of Philanthropic Services at J.P.Morgan Private Bank."

• Her mother was one of the many people who spent time in these camps, while her dad served occupation duty in Japan.
• After the war and her mother was set free and her dad came back home, she and her 3 older sister learned to value education.
• Basically what this source is saying is that the Japanese Americans were set free after the war, and people like her were still able to get a good education.

The second source is from the Smithsonian Institution.

• Review of art galleries based on telling the American story.
• 120,000 Japanese Americans were sent to the interment camps.
• more than 2/3 of those people were American citizens by birth, meaning they probably had no connection with people living in Japan.
• most were given barely a week's notice to "settle their affairs" meaning sell their house, pack, and then report to camp.
• barren locations
• some drafted into the U.S. armed forces
• many people made beautiful objects while in the camps, and that is how the art galleries are connected with this story.

The third source comes from: Former Japanese American internees fight to preserve internment camps.(WWII Today).

• like previous sources, nearly 120,000 were sent over, most of them American citizens by birth.
• After the war was over, the camps were basically destroyed
• These people actually want to preserve the camps, not because they were enjoyable, but to tell genereations and gernerations of people what happened at the internment camps and during WW2

The fourtth source is from Dilemma: Defining Moments 2 Executive Order 9066 - Japanese-American Internment

• Feb. 19, 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066. Gave authority to military to relocate "suspicious residents in areas deemed militarily sensitive."
• March 2, 1942,  Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt, the chief of the Western Defense Command, ordered the exclusion or removal of all Japanese Americans from California, Oregon, and Washington State.
• Two important legal cases were brought against the United States concerning internment. The cases were Hirabayashi v. United States (1943), and Korematsu v. United States (1944).
• Defendants argued that gov. violated their Fifth Amendment rights= ancestry.
• Both cases, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the U.S. government.
•  In 1944, two and a half years after signing Executive Order 9066, President Roosevelt took back the order, repealed it.
•  The last of the internment camps were closed at the end of 1945.
• In 1968, around 24 years after camps were closed, gov. began to give back Japanese Americans money or land for property they had lost.
• In 1988, Congress passed legislation that allowed the U.S.  to give out $20,000 to each to the surviving internees, some 60,000 Japanese Americans in all.

The fifth source is from Wikipedia and is a definition.

•  " Internment is the process of confining a group of people, usually prisoners of war or enemy alien residents, in a restricted area. The U.S. government interned many Japanese Americans in "relocation camps" during World War II merely because of their hereditary links to an enemy nation. "

I am doing this blog post at home because I spent the entire time in class just searching for information. I hope that it's ok for my post to be on Saturday instead of on Thursday.

Triangle Company Fire

From the perspective of an American living in 1911 who has been following the news of the Triangle Factory Fire and its aftermath in your daily paper, tell me your reaction to the events. What action (if any) do you think should be taken?

As an American, I believe that the owners of the Triangle Company should be punished! These girls had no way of escaping the fire, and all the owners had to do was pay money?! Are you serious? The girls could not escape because the owners locked the doors. The owners said that they lock the doors so the girls don't steal anything. And when asked if they knew the doors were locked at the time of the fire, all they had to do was lie about it. If it was up to me, I would be shutting down their business.

How do the events of the Triangle Factory Fire and its aftermath tie in with what we've learned about the Progressive Era thus far?

The women unions are taking action by demanding safe working conditions so another fire where the workers cannot escape doesn't happen again. They are standing up for their own rights, and they want to get it done.

Unions having little success in 1871-1900

Explain why unions had little success during the period 1871-1900 in improving the economic and social position of U.S. workers.

• People believed that strikers were radical(terrorists). The bombing for the Haymarket Riot.
• When the strikers went on strike, companies could easily replace them. Ex. when the railroad workers were dissatisfied and went on strike, the railroad companies brought in new workers to replace them because the immigrants would work for a lower wage and for longer hours without complaing.
• The strikes were unsuccessful because the military (at some level) was able to step in and shut down the strikes. Ex. the railroad strike in Pittsburg. The militiamen were brought in to shut down the strike, but were unsuccessful. So President Hayes sent in the federal troops to put the violence to an end. Which successfully ended the strike.

OPVL for the Messiah letter

This is a primary source. Jack Wilson created it because he said it in a speech. The author is someone who wrote it while Jack Wilson was giving his speech. It was created in 1891. It was published in 1891 in Nevada. Jack Wilson, also known as Wovoka, was the profit of the Ghost Dance religion. This document exists because while Jack Wilson was speaking, he asked someone to record everything he said. The intended audience is for people listening to the speech. The document is telling people who want to join the Ghost  dance religion what to do. The limitation to this is we cannot tell what the Americans thought about this religion happening, or what happened after they got word of this religion happening.