Dr. Laura Schlessinger Racist Rant

Hi Everybody-

This is a link to the Dr. Laura radio program we were talking about in class today.

Disclaimer: This clip contains offensive language

The basic summary of this is an African-American woman calls up Dr. Laura, and they proceed to have a discussion about what is racist and what isn't. Dr. Laura offends the woman, goes to commercial break, comes back, and the argument continues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAD-PipXGwA&feature=related

Another interesting link:

ABS News' compilation of famous people who have been overheard spewing racist remarks:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/popup?id=7364218

-Erin

Civil Rights Cold Case Initiative

I stumbled across this and foung it interesting enough to share:
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/mar10/coldcase_030210.html

In 2006, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation established the Civil Rights Cold Case Initiative, in hopes of bringing justice to hate crimes in the Civil Rights era. They were able to find 108 possible cases, and proceeded to track down next-of-kin for the victims and were able to prosecute a few cases, one involving a former state trooper.

A Survivor's Story

Hello All,

Please follow the link for an article that we'll be discussing in class tomorrow.

Dr. Young

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

I was originally shown this video when we discussed the lynching of freed African Americans in my Crime and Punishment in America class last year. The movie on the site consists of photographs and postcards (usually from around 1900 on) that depict actual lynchings. I know we haven't gotten to the 20th century yet in class, but the Ida B. Wells reading assigned for this week reminded me of the website. I need to say that the images are very disturbing, but I feel that it is worth watching. It certainly gives insight into how a portion of the white population of America viewed lynching, and brings to even more light the intense hatred between people that was present in this country for a great deal of our history.

Without Sanctuary

Outside Reading: Black New Orleans 1860-1880

So I was checking out what I could find on Google Scholar that related to the time period we're talking about in class right now, and I found this book. It was published in the 1970's, so I'm not sure if it is still considered exceptionally accurate, but if anyone has the time, you should look it over. It seems to give a pretty detailed account of what the lives of freed men and women were like in a more specific region of the South. Once I get through it a little more, I'll update, but I wanted to share!

Black New Orleans 1860-1880

Also, this website has some pretty cool pictures and illustrations, as well as a lot of information that relates to the era.

Presidential and Radical Reconstruction (1864-1875)

Course Description

This course analyzes the history of African-Americans from 1877 to the present. We will delve into the experiences of the newly freed persons, only recently removed from the brutalities of slavery; the legal and social development of racial segregation; and the varied and persistent forms of resistance that African-Americans engaged in as avenues of redress. This period marks a shift for African-Americans from the threat of being lashed to the threat of being lynched; where a predominantly agricultural sharecropping class came to be an overwhelmingly urban underclass. We treat the massive migrations of African-Americans to westward lands and into northern cities, the strange career of 'Jim Crow', and the Civil Rights Movement. in addition, the course treats African-American artistic production throughout the period, linking, for example, the rise of the Blues and Jazz to the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. Students will be encouraged to work with primary source documents in order to develop a better sense of history as lived experience.