1 15. So our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. Like i said. Thats what you read all of your sources for, except the payne article which gave you a larger focus. To do that. We are going to go back to our discussion of origin points, right . Our favorite slide which you are going to be so sick of, right, representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement. And we are going back to our topic of origin points again with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events in context, but also troubling the idea of them as arge points. Last week, we discussed brown versus board of education. We discussed the decision, response, the impact, but also the legacy. And i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. But we are to the going do that today. Then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the emmett till case, right . And the lynching of emmett till in august of 19 a 5. We used a mix of primary and secondary sources to
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injustices and how we had been mistreated ever since we d come from africa. have you ever wondered why your name hasn t been more connected with the civil rights movement in the way that for example, rosa parks has been? i understood it. i understood that they had to select someone who would be representative of all classes and adult, i understood that. but what i really was disappointed with, even after the 25th year when they had an anniversary of the montgomery bus boycott, they did not mention brouder versus gayle. initially it was five women but one woman backed out, jeanetta reese, but it was four women.