Space here. Today, we are going to talk about american women in world war ii. And this is, obviously, a huge talker. We could spend an entire semester just on this topic alone. We will try to break it down to three different spaces, and we will look at a lot of images to kind of fit into the other things that weve talked about. So, we are going to talk about american women in three ways. We are going to talk about women at home, okay . Women at work. And women at war. Do so, we are going to kind of organize our ideas this way. We are going to look at a lot of the propaganda weve been talking about propaganda throughout the semester, and watching videos and things like that. We will get a chance to talk about everybody found that to be okay . The all right. Its a good one on women at work during world war ii, you can find it on the National Archives of sight, right . But we will talk about that in this portion, and we will talk about these different parts of women during american women
At the target of the other plane. This is live ammunition, of course. Live ammunition, colorcoded bullets. They did this with a wide variety of different planes. They served as civilians until the 1970s when they started a Grassroots Campaign to be recognized as veterans. Its an incredible, incredible campaign. And they finally were given veterans benefits. This is at the in congress after they testified. This is 1977 when president carter finally recognized them as veterans in the United States. All of their papers are here, if you guys want to serve as interns in the womens collection. We have that. And you can work for their papers directly. But, again, we could have an entire semester on women in war and this is just a quick and dirty version of it. Think about women in these three ways of working here in the United States, domestically and abroad and ill help you organize your thoughts. Do you have any questions or any final ideas or thoughts about this . Thank you, guys, well con
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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Going to go back for discussion of origin points, our favorites light which you are going to be so sick of 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, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. Last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discussed the decision, response, the impact but also the legacy. I want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. But we are not going to do that today. And then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the emmett till case, the lynching of emmett till in august of 1955. We used a mix of secondary and primary sources to consider how ideologies of race, gender and justice impacted that case and impacted the live experience of the people in that case. I want to take a moment to pull out and say that this week, what happened this week that is of significance in re