1.1 Part B What is African American Studies?

What can we observe?

• Diverse crowd

• Rally/protest

• More men that women

• Items of protests (signs, etc)

Video notes & how does this video relate to African studies?

• Abolition in 1873

• Day in March is dedicated towards this

• Abolition Day makes people remember black history

What do you notice or question?

• Some classes are not taught everyday

• One classes are only on one day

• Source looks old

• What would you learn in the underdevelopment class?

What are some main ideas, notes, and a summary?

A)

• Black people were involved in western expansion

• African Diaspora is a huge black experience

B)

• Rays of work form plenty of artists, thousands of family history

• Displays of hard truth like cruel mouth pieces for slaves

• Shows change/developments over time

C)

• Black history & their lives are routed all throughout our history & our impacts/importance

Carter G. Woodson

• Co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life & History (1915)

• Designated the 2nd week of Feb as “Negro History Week” (1926)

• Authored the Journal of Negro History

• Published from home

• Desired for black people to be recognized everyday of the year

Jack Weinberg & the Free Speech Movement

• Arrested Oct 1st, birth of the Free Speech Movement (1964)

• Everyone surrounded the cop car & stood for justice

• The college was upset students got arrested

• Awakened students in political acting

Black Campus Movement

• The Black Campus Movement emerges, students encourage the creation of black studies programs everywhere (1965)

• Hundreds of thousands of black, Latino, Asian, and white supporters/students led protests at over 1k colleges nationwide

• Demanded greater opportunities to study black people & greater support

San Francisco State College

• They led a 133 day campus protest that culminated in the creation of the U.S.’s 1st black studies program (1968)