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I have never really connected the Vietnam War with the Civil Rights movement before. I know that many groups like the Black Panthers were against it, but they were only part of it. I would think that the Vietnam would take away momentum from the Civil Rights movement, as it was more than just a race issue. Is it possible to protest a war from just a view on how it is racist? It seems to me that would take away from both the Civil Rights and the anti-war cause. - J Rowley | I have never really connected the Vietnam War with the Civil Rights movement before. I know that many groups like the Black Panthers were against it, but they were only part of it. I would think that the Vietnam would take away momentum from the Civil Rights movement, as it was more than just a race issue. Is it possible to protest a war from just a view on how it is racist? It seems to me that would take away from both the Civil Rights and the anti-war cause. - J Rowley | ||
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| + | How different was the North from the South that an African American woman, obviously intelligent, wouldn't know much more about the South than that there was "unrest?" Ditto for not knowing about MLK? Raises some questions about how broad the support for the Civil Rights Movement was outside of the South, even within the African American community. Maybe this has something to do with Craig being more or less middle class from what I have read--she marched on Washington for "better jobs." Also, it was curious to read that, like with Parks' husband, he feared trouble if they participated openly in the March while she was willing to be in it and "a part of history." Curious that she would say that she always knew that her son would be alright, even thought it was her daughter that was three years his junior and graduated at the same time as him. What does this mean insofar as the perpetuation of gender roles and assumptions within middle class Northern African American families? -schang | ||
