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Connections was a kind of leadership out of a black congregation, particularly the clergy. In this discussion, i am going to talk too much about men but, males have dominated in some ways the kind of conversation about american politics for a number of reasons as we can see. Let us see if my little thing works. Let us try that again. So, there are a host of characters. I will not talk about all of them. There are some things that i really want you to Pay Attention to. One, it says Indigenous Community organizations. Black churches are Indigenous Community organizations. Because it is controlled by the people at the very lowest level. At the ground level. I dont mean that in terms of status but at the ground level. And therefore, you can see that it creates its own organic leadership. A leadership that belongs to its own community. And we will talk about that a little more, these terms, ecclesial politics. National personalities. One of the things that you will see is that black clergy
Then we are going to zero in on women in the labor market after the war, and follow that through the late 20th century. Today isimportant task to dispel the notion that american women went home after world war ii. American women workers did not go home after world war ii and we are going to do our best to wipe that notion out of our minds. Primary goal. If we can accomplish that we have done a lot. Before we dive into the arguments, i want to do a Free Association exercise. This is going to involve having you close your eyes, relax for a second, and im going to speak a phrase. I want to see what images walked into your minds eye. What images pop up . Is american women in the 1950. 50s. Can women in the 19 do any images come into your mind . Would you share . June cleaver. Great. We will come back to that area . Housewives. Anybody else . A different picture. How many of you thought of suburbia . Whennk it is the most we asked that question of most americans, we ask that of most america
Americans, not just college students, what comes into our mind is suburban housewives. The person that comes into my mind is june cleaver. I have been studying womens history for decades in the first image that pops into my mind is june cleaver. She wasnt even a real woman. My gosh, she is a sitcom character in leave it to beaver. That is the name of the show. Can you describe june cleaver . What is she wearing . A dress, prim and proper. An apron. Prof. Muncy fancy dress and an apron. Sometimes a high coller, not too low. It was still the 50s. Prof. Muncy pearls. Coiffed hair. Prof. Muncy when i picture june cleaver, i always picture her, got the pearls, got the coiffed hair, in stiletto heels frying bacon and vacuuming. This is very often the image we have of american women in the 1950s. One of the things we want to do is to shove june cleaver to the margins of our images of american women in the 1950s. We dont want to get rid of her entirely because suburbanization was an important