this victim narrative about blacks in the united states. that the only role they played was a victim to white majority oppression. when i teach my course on black american politics i always stress to my students when we talked about king and the civil rights movement in 50 s and 60 s we need to call it the modern civil rights movements because blacks from before the revolution were pressing, prudently, pressing foretheir rights. m american history could be one long civil rights, emancipation proclamation and it s going on now, it s people trying to grab other s rights. that never changes, that s human nature, that s human history. if i asked the audience when did america have its first african-american judge, what year would you say? anybody? take a guess.
was a victim to white majority oppression. when i teach my course on black american politics i always stress to my students when we talked about king and the civil rights movement in 50 s and 60 s we need to call it the modern civil rights movements because blacks from before the revolution were pressing, prudently, pressing foretheir rights. m american history could be one long civil rights, emancipation proclamation and it s going on now, it s people trying to grab other s rights. that never changes, that s human nature, that s human history. if i asked the audience when did america have its first african-american judge, what year would you say? anybody? take a guess. judge.